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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this brings me to the issue of health human resource. We should take care of our well trained human resource. We have been having strikes in the country. Health has been devolved and it can work as a devolved function. We should put structures in place to ensure that health personnel get their entitlements wherever they are, whether it is employment, retirement, promotion or training. That is basically the problem. I do not understand why we have not sat down, as a country, through the intergovernmental relations mechanism to produce a system that will take care of all these people. The arrogance portrayed by some governors while discussing the issue of strikes by doctors is extremely catastrophic. I can assure those governors that when the strikes are over, they will not have the same number of doctors they had at the beginning. Those doctors will be much less. After a strike, some doctors and nurses leave the country. We should look at that issue. I heard the Leader of the Majority Party talking about universal healthcare. I know he is not here but when we are discussing matters of health, I do not know why he brings in politics, becomes derogatory and talks ill of party leaders. Those are not important at a time like this. We should stick to the issues that we are discussing. In any case, the concept of universal healthcare came from this country and was passed in Geneva. That was during the Grand Coalition Government. You cannot say that a party leader failed to perform knowing very well that is a past era. Those things make us deviate from an important issue. I support this Bill because we need to have biomedical engineers trained, registered and regulated. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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