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    "id": 594328,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mule",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Mutinda Mule",
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    "content": "that happened in Kangundo District Hospital as an example of how this Bill will help the people. Six mothers gave birth to six kids who died the same day. It has been very difficult for the county executive members who have been sent to Kangundo District Hospital to get the records of what happened that day. With this Bill, those mothers and other patients will get proper justice and information of what happened to their kids. As I second this Bill, it is very clear that we already have the Health Bill which is with the Committee. As a Committee, we have agreed that it will be the mother Bill of all the professions in the health sector. It will not repeal any single Act within the cadres. The Health sector is one of the sectors where we have so many cadres which need to be regulated. There is no way we are going to allow the country to be governed by one law. It is important that doctors and nurses have their own regulations. Professional health workers have also come up with their own Bill. If you look at page two of today’s Order Paper, Item no.12 is a Bill which I am sponsoring for biomedical engineers. Why are we doing this? Recently, the country signed the Managed Health Equipment Services project for this country, where we are spending Kshs38 billion to equip our hospitals. If we do that and we cannot manage the data of the patients of this country, we will not know what is affecting us and which region has similar characteristics of epidemics. It is high time that this House makes laws which will move this country from where we are to a better place. I thank Hon. Neto and the team. I also thank the Departmental Committee on Health. We had a lot of difficulty in understanding exactly where Hon. Neto was coming from. We made a report to this House to make sure that this Bill goes through. What I wish to ask is very clear. We are passing very critical Bills and they are assented to. My problem is that it becomes difficult to implement some of these Bills because some of the officers within those Ministries do not want them to be implemented. I urge this House to come up with a mechanism to make sure that we force the Executive to implement all the Bills that are passed in this House to make sure that they benefit the common mwananchi and that old mother or father of Kenya. The scenario we have in this country is that a person may be treated in Tharaka Nithi or Machakos. If this Bill is implemented properly, when the sickness becomes extreme and that patient needs to be referred to one of the national hospitals, it will be easier for doctors at the national or referral levels to access health records of that patient from where he was treated first, so that we do not have patients who are mis-diagnosed or given wrong treatment because there are no proper records. With the way this Bill is structured, there is no way it is going to expand the expenditure of this country as some people have alluded to. It is a Bill which is going to make work easier for doctors in the health sector. Hon. (Dr.) Naomi is here. She will tell you that, sometimes, a patient is referred from Taita Taveta and she has to see that patient here. Sometimes, it takes two to three days for doctors to receive health records of that patient. We are going digital. It is important to understand that once this Bill is passed and the country goes the digital way, it will be so easy for doctors to communicate from one hospital to the other with proper records which are certified by health records managers. We do not want records which are sent haphazardly. To make sure that he advances more treatment to a patient, we must make sure that the information given to a doctor or professor is correct, precise, accurate and real so that proper treatment to our patients is given to the level we intend to take the health sector in this country. 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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