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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mbui",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also make my contribution to the Clinical Officers (Training, Registration and Licencing) Bill of 2016. First, I thank Hon. Leonard Sang for coming up with a very timely Bill that is going to put some serious sense into the health sector in this country, and help alleviate the problems that are facing the provision of healthcare in this country. The role of clinical officers cannot be stressed enough in this House because they play an extremely important role in providing healthcare to our patients. Unfortunately, the laws that are in existence currently do not give them the mandate to do exactly what is expected of them. This is a timely Bill because the first thing it does is to form a Clinical Officers Council of Kenya. That is an extremely important council because it has clear roles that have not been in existence in the past, on how to manage that sector. As you are aware, there are many times when clinical officers are left in charge of clinics and hospitals. We know very well that we do not have enough doctors for every single health facility. So, there are certain things that they are trained to do but, unfortunately, because the law does not allow them, if they are found out carrying out some of those roles, then they find themselves in trouble. So, this Bill gives them an avenue through which they can carry out the expected roles without any harassment from any quarters. The purpose of this Clinical Officers Council of Kenya is basically to supervise and control training and professional practice of clinical officers in Kenya. They are very clear roles. The first one is to advise the Government on policy matters. It is important that clinical officers themselves, using their own council, are able to advise the Government on issues that concern clinical officers and what needs to be done to enhance that industry. The second one is to prescribe minimum educational entry requirements for people to be trained. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you are aware that even in the recent past, our Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Education, Science and Technology talked about people who are actually going out there and graduating with honours degrees and yet, they got very poor grades in secondary schools. We saw a report in the newspapers of someone who had a grade D and ended up with a degree within a few years, which is totally unacceptable. What is happening is that if The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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