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    "id": 618526,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anami",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Lisamula Silverse Anami",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I would like to support this Bill. The quality of our peoples’ life depends on health care and the kind of services that they access through interventions by our health facilities and health personnel. The biomedical engineers sector is very critical. Two extremes make our people lose their lives, namely, the aspect of diagnosis and the process thereof and the aspect of prevention. I would like to agree with the Mover, Hon. Mule, that we need regulations, so that the process is water-tight and safe all along. We have lost patients because of wrong diagnosis. Sometimes, wrong diagnosis comes about because of the biometric practitioners who use equipment that is not properly maintained. I want to agree that minimum standards should be put in place to guarantee accurate diagnosis and prevention thereof. In cases where we have accurate diagnosis, we also need to guarantee sustainability. Because of the kind of life that we live, and I have said this before, the process needs to be cost- effective. Again, we need to incorporate our traditional systems, so that occupation therapy is also carried along. This will be achieved through putting clear regulations in place, as has been proposed. I support the idea of the board, which needs to have a very clear networking with all practitioners and institutions. More importantly, we need to qualify this as a money Bill, so that there is facilitation. We have experienced frustration when we construct health facilities, but after constructing beautiful buildings, we cannot move on from there because we do not have practitioners and equipment. When the equipment is donated to us, as has rightly been said, we are not guaranteed of its efficiency. We just use it the way it is because it is the only facility that we have. This regulation, the access and maintenance of the equipment will be factored in the budgetary process and the overall management of the institutions. There is the aspect of co-ordination with the Cabinet Secretary (CS) responsible for the Ministry and even co-ordination between the CS and the grassroots institutions. You can only find such services in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu, if you are lucky, and other exclusive institutions like the Eldoret Teaching and Referral Hospital and yet, sicknesses occur at the grassroots. We need to get a coordination process where a minimum of those facilities can be taken to the grassroots where our people live and where the fundamentals of our society are found. We also have elements of double standards in the health sector. This is where we need equitable distribution of resources. This should be factored in the regulations so that, as we approve these provisions, we guarantee that the services will trickle down to the village where our people live. I would like to thank Hon. Mule for this Bill."
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