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    "id": 596160,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for allowing me to second. I want to thank the Deputy Leader of the Majority Party for ably presenting the Bill. Regarding this Health Bill, as a Committee we have held 35 sittings, and we have involved various parties. This Bill was presented to our Committee on 7th and 9th July 2015; we held our meetings in the Chamber, where we were able to hold consultative sessions with the members of the public from various interested parties within the health sector. We have also held various retreats. We have had a retreat with the Commission on Implementation of the Constitution (CIC), Office of the Deputy President, the Legislative and the Inter-Governmental Liaison Office. We also held a retreat with the Council of Governors (CoG) on 16th to 19th September 2015. This was aimed at building consensus, especially on the issues that we felt were contentious. I want to thank everybody who participated. We also received memoranda from Pharmaceutical Society of Kenya; Kenya Ethical and Legal Issues Network; Public Health Society of Kenya; Kenya National Commission on Human Rights; Council of Governors; IPAS Africa Alliance; Coalition on Violence Against Women; Kenya Health Professionals Society; Kenya Heath and Palliative Care Association; Kenya Medical Association; Kenya National Union of Nurses; Kenya Dental Association; Kenya Pharmaceutical Association; Health Systems Management Association; Kenya Health International; Kenya Christians Professionals Forum; National Technical Working Group on Quality Management; the Health Sector Board for KEPSA and various individual healthcare professionals. Some of the areas discussed with the stakeholders included aligning the interpretation of the Bill to the World Health Organisation (WHO) definitions, implementation of emergency provisions as provided for in the Health Bill, the role of palliative care in the national healthcare system, the qualifications of the Director-General, the County Director of Health and other officers in charge under Levels 4, 5 and 6 health facilities, the creation of a Health Directors Forum and the management of the health human resource. This was very key because many of the healthcare workers, especially after the devolution of health found that we needed to have a mechanism through which management of training, issues of promotion of healthcare, inter- county transfer and all other issues pertaining to healthcare in the country could be addressed."
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