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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyugi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Augostinho Neto Oyugi",
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    "content": "Clause 6(1)(f) empowers the Board to ensure that exams are administered to people who seek registration as health records and information managers. The examination should also be standard so that we do not have people qualified under different examinations. Whether it is an institution in my small village in Ndhiwa that wants to train health records and information managers, it should operate within the same curriculum and administer the same examinations as other institutions in the country. This will ensure that people who train and are admitted into this profession have gone through the same curriculum. Lastly, we would like to have a board that is going to direct and supervise the compilation of a register of all health records and information managers. Right now if you asked the number of people in this profession who are health records and information managers, no one has that information. So, we hope this Board is going to have a register where details of all persons who succeed to be health records and information managers will be entered. It will then be possible to lay blame on particular people. Because they are going to be licensed, you can have licences of such people withdrawn for particular reasons. There is something I would like to clarify. This Bill speaks to two functions: there are people we call health records and information officers and health records and information technicians. The difference is that presently there are people with diploma training and others with certificate training. Instead of giving the two categories different names, we are calling them managers. However, to differentiate them by their level of training, the Bill assigns the names “officer” and “technician”. That is the distinction this Bill makes, but whether one has certificate or diploma training, he or she will be bound by this law. The other thing is that there is a category of persons who do not work in public hospitals. There are people who work in private facilities who also deal with health records. We have ensured that those people are covered under what we are calling private practitioners. Even if you are in public service or private practice, you will be bound by the code of conduct and ethics that will be developed under this law. This Bill also seeks to provide the terms and conditions under which names are going to be removed from the register. It creates the position of a Registrar who is going to be in charge of managing the register. If you have cases of misdemeanour, your name can be removed from the roll. There are also penalties if your name is removed from the roll. Clause 21 of the Bill provides for the qualifications that one ought to satisfy to be registered. Clause 23 creates offences. A couple of months ago, there has been a problem because of lack of proper health records. Some people have suffered. Health records give the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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