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    "content": "that is fool proof where you can communicate with another person without communicating with everybody. This boy is at the Medical School, University of Nairobi. If he was given a choice, he would have studied Computer Engineering or something else. We must give people choices. First of all, our doctors must have interest in life and we cannot force people. Somebody probably wants to be a pilot and you cannot force him or her to be a doctor. Those are basic things that I thought this Committee would take time and look into so that our doctors are happy. After that we should go to the next step. The Doctor in Makueni County must be somebody who wishes and is willing to work in Makueni, because he or she is there. We are now pushing all these universities there. We should have the ability to teach our doctors, at least, the basics. Let us do it in this law, so that in university admission, not less than a certain percentage of students who apply to do medicine must be taken to the university. Not that they must all have grade “A”. One may have grade “B”, but the university can have an entrance exam. Why are we stuck in an education system that is not helping our people and yet we have put in law that healthcare is a duty of the State? Parliament must also help the State in legislating how the State provides that service. Hon. Speaker, you cannot tell people that you will give them healthcare if there are no drugs. There are no drugs in our country and it is not that we cannot import, but there is too much corruption. I can tell you with a lot of comfort that now that there is a cash crunch in the country, the only avenue of corruption left for the governors is health. They are now eating blood because they are using supplies of medicine to kill the medical system. Just the other day, one of the boys who work for me went to a dispensary near my home and there was not even Panadol. That system is not working. Let us look for a way in this law to control the price of medicine. I am diabetic. I went to buy my diabetic medicine in a chemist in Kisumu and it cost me about Kshs3,000 which is way out of reach of ordinary people. It is overpriced. I went to the Nairobi Hospital to fill and it cost Kshs11,000. We must control the price of drugs if we want to 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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