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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Shehe",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Safari Shehe",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion and wish to congratulate Hon. (Ms.) Musyoka for this observation. Actually, we have situations where many of our Government institutions have these facilities in short supply like first aid boxes and the people who are supposed to use them in an emergency do not have that training at all. So, even the bigger hospitals have no facilities or units which are supposed to take care of emergency patients. I would like to point out that in other countries where this function has been of great use, many Government and parastatal employees are taken through courses regularly. This enables them to attend to emergency cases quickly when they arise. In our case, most public service vehicles are fitted with small first aid kits and if you ask anyone if he or she has knowledge of them, you will find that he or she is not aware. Somebody can faint but he is not saved because no one has that knowledge. We need a lot of public training. The people in this sector should know how to handle patients using the knowledge that can be acquired from different levels of training. We have had cases in many countries where during an emergency ambulances do not use the normal public highways. There are separate lanes that are used by ambulances. In this country a patient who is being rushed to hospital might die because the highways are congested and an ambulance is unable to pass through. Drivers of ambulances can activate their siren to be 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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