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    "id": 629244,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/629244/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Prof.) Nyikal",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I support the Petition. There is a serious problem in the country with regard to referral of patients abroad. To begin with, it is not always that whenever a person is referred, he or she is likely to benefit. We are realising, as a country, that we have organisations that do not have proper medical backgrounds. They are agents of transferring patients. Many times, you will find that patients make arrangements to be transferred and their doctors sometimes become mere passengers in seeing how they are going to be referred. This is the case and yet nobody has made consultations with the doctor or the institution abroad. It is not guaranteed that what the patients are going to get will help them. If you look at data, you will realise that most patients who go out do not get better when they come back. The other worrying bit is why patients are going to India in particular. It beats logic that two people will get two tickets, fly to India, hire hotel to stay, get treatment and come back. This is the case and yet we still feel that this is cheaper than what is charged in this country. The other area that we need to look at is the pricing of medical services. I support this Petition. On the day that the Committee will be looking at it, I offer to be in that meeting, find out the facts and assist. Thank you."
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