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    "id": 682879,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Nyamunga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Rose Nyamunga Ogendo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to what my colleagues have said about this Bill. It is very important to note that this is a national Government function and it belongs to this House. As we debate it, we should know that whatever the Bill is seeking to do is a national matter which should be taken care of by this House. Secondly, all professions should be regulated. There is no profession that cannot be regulated. If you look at the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board, there are rules and regulations that regulate the practice. If you look at engineers, they also have an association. Lawyers, accountants and all other professions have rules, regulations and associations where they take their issues. They are regulated on training and licensing. So, it is very important that Biomedical Engineers also have an association which can regulate and articulate their issues. Thirdly, we all know, and the Leader of the Majority Party has mentioned, that the Government took a very ambitious function of leasing out a lot of equipment to our Level 5 hospitals. Without the Biomedical Engineers Bill, it will be very difficult to operate the equipment that has been leased. For us to effectively and sufficiently gain from the money that is going to be invested in the medical sector, it is important to have engineers to maintain the equipment. It is not only Government hospitals that from time to time experience breakdowns of the equipment, but this happens across the board. Sometime back, I was supposed to take some test at the Aga Khan Hospital and it took me so long. I had to wait for three months because the equipment broke down. They had to bring somebody from outside to come and repair the equipment."
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