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    "id": 643181,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/643181/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogalo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2679,
        "legal_name": "George Oner Ogalo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, as you are aware, emergency health care is a constitutional right. Deferring emergency health care provision to the setting up of a future fund cannot be part of the duties of this House. This House has no responsibility to postpone the provisions of the Constitution. When the Constitution has already provided that emergency healthcare is a constitutional right, you cannot pass a law that postpones provision of emergency healthcare. Clause 7(2) provides that no person shall be denied emergency treatment by the health service provider of first contact provided the provisions of section 54 (1)(e) have been implemented. That section requires that the county government and national Government both come up with a financing model for financing health care providers to give emergency care. If somebody has been licensed to provide health care, he must be able to at least offer emergency health care. Under Clause 7(3) of the Bill, emergency health care is defined as pre-hospital care and anything to stabilise the health status of the patient and arranging for referral. Transferring a patient from your facility to another one is sufficient as emergency care. How can you say a facility licensed to provide health care in this country cannot achieve any of those? We recommitted it so that we can delete Clause 7(2)"
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