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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shakeel",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "Coming to the Board, and this is what I find a little bit difficult because the Kenya Veterinarian Board will be the umbrella body for both the veterinarians and the para- professionals, as much as we know that the intentions are good, this will become a closed society Board. They will use this to cut out the para-professionals who they know are going to take part of the business. I was proposing, and I will do this in the prescribed manner, that we should not have four registered surgeons under item (f) and only one para-professional. We should have, maybe, two veterinarian surgeons, two para- professionals and three people who are not veterinarian surgeons in the final part of (j). As much as we understand that there has to be certain standards, we do not want the veterinary surgeons to hold 70 per cent of the Board. When they get together, they can knock out any para-professional. Para-professionals need to be given that variance. There is another point which I would like to talk about in Paragraph 17 on page 553. This is on the qualifications. Veterinarians and para-professionals should have successfully completed post-secondary school education in animal signs health lasting two years or more at an institution approved by the Board and obtained a certificate and thereafter, an internship of not less than 12 months under the supervision of a veterinary surgeon. I take issue with the necessary supervision of a veterinary surgeon. I suggest that it would be under the supervision of either a recognized para-professional, surgeon or if the Board can approve somebody else as well. It should not just be a veterinary surgeon. Then they will have the monopoly of deciding who is a better professional, who is not and who has the qualifications despite the fact that these people have gone through a two year degree course. The Board has on board the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and a veterinary surgeon will be the principal of a para-professional training institution. Everything will come to the veterinary surgeon. Those are the things that we need to work on."
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