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    "id": 598303,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Macharia",
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        "legal_name": "Jacob Waweru Macharia",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I support this Motion by Hon. (Dr.) Susan Musyoka on the Development of National Curriculum for Training of Medical Personnel on Emergency Care. It is true that in this country, incidences that put human life to danger are many. There are traffic and domestic accidents. There are many other cases that endanger human life. Those incidents are part of life. We have allowed teams such as the Red Cross and St John Ambulance to take care of training on emergency and handling emergency personnel. This curriculum is totally neglected. Most of it is taught at primary and secondary school levels. It is very important because we have realized that when those kinds of patients reach our hospitals, sometimes, we do not have personnel to attend to them. Some of them die simply because they are not given basic emergency care. Sometimes, when accidents happen in rural areas or in areas far from hospitals, the first people on site do not know what to do. The curriculum will help because the medical personnel all over the country, including members of the public who may want to be part of the training, will get expertise in handling life emergencies. As a result, many lives will be saved. It is important that we improve our emergency evacuation system in terms of ambulances. In Molo Constituency, for example, we only have one ambulance which is old and dilapidated. I concur with the Hon. Member for Kiminini that devolution of the health sector has brought more harm than good. We have seen deterioration of emergency evacuation. My constituency, through which the Eldoret-Nakuru Highway passes, has a black spot at Sachangwan. Every two days we have an emergency requiring evacuation and handling of traffic patients. That area has suffered. It is important that the national Government takes up the issue of emergency evacuation and national curriculum on training. In such an area where the County Government of Nakuru is supposed to set up an emergency reaction center, we still have to act from Nakuru Town and Molo. With those few remarks, I support the Motion."
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