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    "id": 618501,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "I am well guided, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. One of the areas that need to be addressed is the question of making the board to run on subscription. In my view, qualified biomedical engineers in this country are so few that if resourcing is through subscription, the good intention of this Bill may not work. Somewhere along the line, we may have to find a way of asking the taxpayer to pay for it. I read somewhere that five years ago, three to five hundred new diseases arise every year. Right now, we have the Zika virus. We did not know about it. We will probably require equipment to handle the virus. As human life gets more and more complex, one can say authoritatively that we will need complex equipment to understand how to deal with the diseases that keep emerging. The provisions as provided in this Bill are good as a starting point, but do they help us in achieving the intentions of this good Bill? With those remarks, and with notice of intention to bring amendments, I support. I would like to thank my good friend, Hon. Mule, for bringing to this House a Bill that is going to bring regulation into an area that we live in as a country. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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