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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kambi",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 39,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Kazungu Kambi",
        "slug": "samuel-kambi"
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for reminding me that. In admitting students for various courses which started in September, 2010, the college worked with the 1999 population census results. Although a subsequent census took place in 2009, the results had not been released as at June, 2010 when the admission exercise was concluded. The guidelines and the criteria which were used were:- (i) Admission of students is based on existing guidelines approved by the board of management and the Ministry. The guidelines had the following variables for consideration in distribution at various places across the country. (a) Population size (b) Regional balance (c) Poverty index (d) Affirmative action for gender (e) Disability (f) Minority groups who had expressed interest by way of application Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in applying the population variable, 75 per cent of existing vacancies per training discipline were shared out equally pro rata to population levels among the eight provinces while the remaining 25 per cent were shared out according to the poverty index, again for the eight provinces. After the share of each province was determined, it was then shared among the districts in the province based on population levels. The final consideration honoured gender, home districts and divisions. The population and poverty index figures used in the computation of the vacancies are summarized below:- Nairobi with a population of 2,807,155 has a poverty index of 22. Coast Province with a population of 3,278,668 has a poverty index of 59. North Eastern Province with a population of 1,106,309 has a poverty index of 74. Eastern Province with a population of 5,821,635 has a poverty index of 51."
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