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    "id": 598287,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Therefore, I strongly support the fact that we need to have special personnel who can handle the persons who are injured during emergency situations prudently, professionally and as fast as possible. On the same note, we might talk of installing equipment in our Level 5, Level 6 and referral hospitals in our country. We might talk of bringing ICU equipment, dialysis equipment and all other equipment required for safe treatment of persons and saving lives. However, if we do not have qualified personnel who are trained to use them, they will be there as monuments. They will be there to be seen. We will keep on sending patients to South Africa and India whereas we have that equipment here. We even need a special institution to train doctors, paramedics and people who are capable of handling those emergencies because we are losing many people in our country today because of negligence, ignorance, carelessness and lack of proper planning. Hon. Deputy Speaker, ambulances carrying patients who have a few minutes or hours to live use roads that are blocked. The sirens keep on blowing all the time on our roads. We need to have a system where we can have proper clearance of our roads so that we can take our patients to the required destinations as fast as possible. Our roads are poorly designed. When those emergencies occur, we need the police to help us in clearing the roads. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I strongly support this Motion. If we do what it proposes, we will go far in developing a system which will do more justice to our people during emergency cases. We will save more lives than the ones we lose today. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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