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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mule",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Mutinda Mule",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First and foremost, I thank the Members who have turned up this morning to support this important Bill. The Departmental Committee on Health, which I sit in, has already dealt with the most contentious issues, as Hon. Duale had alluded to earlier on. This is especially the issue of the boards, which are linking to the council within the Health Bill. I just want to bring members to speed on why we need this Bill to go to the Third Reading as quickly as possible. This country has seen some projects on medical equipment which cost a huge amount of money. Twenty years down the line, they are still in boxes. We had the Spanish Project where all the equipment is still in boxes 15 years down the line because of lack of personnel. We had the automated laser system sometimes back in the 1990s. Up to today, that equipment has never benefited Kenyans because of lack of personnel. Right now, we have the EMS Project which cost the Jubilee Government Kshs38 billion. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if we are not careful, I can assure you that this project will follow the same trend that we have seen before. This Bill seeks to address issues of training, quality and members of staff. At this time of terror threats, it will be difficult to have biomedical engineers who are not regulated in this country when they are the same people who calibrate, maintain and give us certificates of good theatres. I want to urge all Hon. Members to be available as we move the amendments during the Committee of the whole House, to make sure that we give this country a better scenario of maintaining medical equipment to ensure that we have quality health care. We will also understand that the equipment which will be purchased in future will go to public use without losing money."
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