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    "id": 618473,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "In this country, we have the various levels of healthcare, right from primary healthcare at Level 1 covering dispensaries and health centres, which were formerly sub-district hospitals, to county hospitals and inter-county hospitals - Level 5 or Level 6 hospitals. However, we must ask ourselves whether we have enough biomedical engineers at all those levels in this country. Using our Constituencies Development Fund (CDF), we have built various facilities. For example, last year in my constituency, I handed over several health centres and dispensaries to the Governor. But to date, we do not have basic paramedic staff, leave alone biomedical engineers. We do not have clinical officers to run those facilities. The counties have been promising that they are going to recruit soon - which is not arriving. When it comes to the issue of biomedical engineers, we should encourage the county governments to make sure that the equipment that they have in the various health facilities are maintained for them to provide services. In as far as the recruitment is concerned, they should consider whether they need a biomedical engineer per facility or one who can manage the various health centres or a conglomeration of dispensaries, so that he or she can run those facilities. To maintain even the simple blood pressure (BP) machines, stethoscopes or refrigerators, you need to have a biomedical engineer to make sure that they are running. They even service equipments. Two facilities in every county are going to be equipped. If an X-ray machine is being fixed at a district hospital and it is not functional, whom will you require? Those are the key issues that we will address through this Bill. With those few remarks, I want to second the Bill."
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