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    "content": "” When President Moi was told that Dr Kituyi ni daktari ile ya vitabu, he said, “ oo bure kabisa ” because of the troubles that Dr. Kituyi used to cause him. We should word it in that manner so that we remind those people who walk around with the title “doctor” not to be tempted to practice medicine. When I was in medical school, there was a doctor by virtue of title. Since he is a cousin to Sen. Elachi, I will not say his name. He was a doctor of sociology. When you want to look different from the nurses and clinical officers at Kenyatta National Hospital, you have to have the prescription pad visible. People knew that the only person who could make a prescription is a doctor because he has a pad. “This doctor” used to walk with a prescription pad. I recall vividly when I was in the final year of medicine, how Prof. Mengich of Moi University, by then he was a professor of psychiatry, embarrassed this man before patients. He said, “Why are you walking with that prescription? You are not a doctor of medicine. You are a doctor of sociology.” That guy never taught us for the balance of the fifth year because the humiliation was too much. We had always thought he was a doctor. Mr. Speaker Sir, in that area, Sen. (Prof.) Lesan and I should sit and see how to craft it, so that a doctor who also assists another person to be a quack can be dealt with. We have doctors who have nursing homes and clinics and they allow their practicing licenses to hang of the walls of such premises when the person he is allowing to sit in the clinic is a quack. This kind of doctor should also be punished for deploying in his clinic somebody without the prerequisite qualifications to practice medicine at that level. I also want to laud Sen (Prof) Lesan because you mentioned it in passing, but you should have made it clear. There is something extremely dangerous going on especially for the young ladies, and because we have a youthful Senator here, it is good for my daughter to know. In the chemists where you buy medicine, the pharmacists pretend to be doctors, because they pass around calling themselves Dr. Kidero, for example - and that is purely for reference purposes. I have nothing against him. They are not doctors. They can get away by calling themselves doctors, forgive them, but they should not be allowed to inscribe it on their official titles. This law should further clarify it. The reason being that the young female Senators who are here, if you go to the chemist, pharmacists are asking patients to do urine test, because you can do a quick urine test to test whether a The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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