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    "content": "substituted for somebody else’s. The painful case of Jacinta and her family should have been the duty of the Committee to recommend for legal services for her. The Constitution provides for the provision of legal services to the persons who cannot afford. We are expected, as a Senate, to recommend to the aggrieved family to seek proper legal advice including taking up legal action against parties that have occasioned this painful lose of their children. No amount of compensation can substitute a loss of a child because every mother wants to bring up their children. However, compensation to some decree mitigates the sense of loss and pain that parents suffer. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as we debate this Report and suggest recommendations on how hospitals should be run, we still have Jacinta in pain. There must have been some lapses, and I have seen mentions in the Report about the hospital. There are no two women who can go to delivery on one bed unless it is a broken system. Chair, you are a doctor and I know you run hospitals and you still do. When a woman delivers, the attendant maternity personnel are under obligation as soon as the delivery is over and the child gives the usual first wail to tag the child. Where there is a large turnover like Pumwani Maternity Hospital, the risk of possible mix-up is avoided by tagging children upon delivery. If a misfortune like death occurs, the child will be identified by the tag immediately after birth. Any hospital that fails to do this is veering away from the expectations of both the medical profession and practice. I come from a twin family. My mother had four pairs of twins and she told me that some of my twin siblings were born six hours apart. So, where there is a delivery like that, the first twin will invariably be taken to the nursery as the mother continues in labour to deliver the second twin. The first delivered child cannot be taken to the nursery facility without a tag identity. Where there is loss of life, the first twin may be identified as a first delivery. These lapses are issues that I think that the Committee should take up with the Ministry of Health and send recommendations to help the health institutions all over the country and especially the maternity hospitals. Pumwani Maternity Hospital is the busiest maternity hospital in the country. Children are born there almost every 30 minutes. It is being expanded to be the biggest maternity facility in the region. Fair and good but there must be just and fair handling of mothers and the newborn babies. The worst that can happen to a family after nursing a pregnancy is to lose a child on birth and worse enough to know that the lost child is unavailable. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, from what I have read here, I am not persuaded nor satisfied that Jacinta’s children died. I am also not persuaded nor satisfied that these children are the ones that a postmortem was carried on. I believe it could be another case of child theft and trafficking. They could have been stolen and trafficked to somewhere. I support the Report."
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