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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "are things that are permeating in our society. This Bills talk of anti-doping agency. One of the things that is lacking and we need to input is a therapeutic regulator. The therapeutic regulator in the Pharmacy and Poisons Board will help since they have a Pharmacovigilance Committee that will find out what drugs are in the market and they will be able to advise. Clause 9 talks of Therapeutic Use Exemption Committee. We will need a clinical pharmacist because when you talk of drugs and call somebody who does not understand medical terms, it will be a challenge to him. Those are some of the amendments that, we from the medical profession, can move to enrich the Bill. This will ensure that we have people who understand terms such as “erythropoietin” which cannot apply to members from other committees. They will even have challenges pronouncing the terms. One may not even know what it is and how it works in the body. Somebody could be running then they collapse and die of cardiac arrest and stroke. How can someone who is not from the medical profession explain all these mechanisms with the use of erythropoietin? This is a Bill that we will need to enrich as we go into the Committee of the whole House. This will ensure that we have a committee that understands what these doping drugs are, what we need to do and how we should regulate the market, so that even the punishment is not only to the person taking the drug, but also to the person giving the drug. The attempt to make profit out of somebody’s life is a dangerous thing. With those few remarks, thank you."
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