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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Tongi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to speak to the Motion. I want to thank Dr. Susan Musyoka for a well thought-out Motion. From the outset, I want to mention that we all perish due to lack of knowledge. Even the good Bible says: “My people are perishing due to lack of knowledge.” Coming up with an extra lane to be used by our ambulances ferrying patients to hospital is a noble idea. However, we are aware that we are living in a Third World country where resources are limited and we can only do this much. It is good to dream and have those ambitions but what is it? What are the door hanging fruits that we can take advantage of at the moment even as we think of the long term plans of having extra lanes for ambulances? In my opinion, the solution would be training. We will achieve more if people are equipped, trained and they understand what is expected of them. Without training, even if we had all the infrastructure and facilities in place, we would still hurt ourselves because you would be ferried to the hospital at the earliest opportunity but once you get there there is no trained person to give you the tender loving care that you need in the hospital. If you do not get that, you will be hurt more. I am supporting this Motion with an amendment that we need to come up with a way of inculcating into our curriculum system first aid as a compulsory training both at the primary and secondary levels. There are many accidents which happen at home which we can prevent if our people were trained. I am imagining, if today we had our students in primary schools trained on how to administer first aid, it would be good. We move it from St. John Ambulance and club level to a curriculum where you are examined on first aid. We will achieve a lot if we go that way. That way, we will be able to inspire our children. Those who want to do medicine will do it out of choice and not because they want to pursue a career which is going to guarantee them a job. They would do it because they have had an opportunity to handle patients. Probably in the course of their training, they have seen some blood. Those who are not prepared for those kinds of cases would give up in good time so that they create an enabling environment or an opportunity for a person who is prepared psychologically, emotionally and in every other way to become a doctor. What is the situation at the moment? Anybody who passes with flying colours or gets a very good grade from high school ends up doing medicine. It is not because they want to be in the medical profession, but it is because the grades enable them to be admitted to that course. Since most of us parents want to have the title “doctor” in the family, we push and encourage them to study it. But what do we end up getting as a community? We get people who are not focused, devoted and inspired by the course they do. If we give them an opportunity to make a decision, and we create an enabling environment to learn and know what is expected of a doctor or a medical person, we will end up with people who will do what they love. When we all do what we love, we end up succeeding. 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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