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    "id": 722827,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/722827/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mohamed Abass",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abass Sheikh Mohamed",
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    "content": "rural areas such that, where I come from, where we have not had medical officers, they have given us wonderful services. Unfortunately, clinical officers have not been having the opportunity for further training in this country. They have not been allowed to practise their profession, such as what this Bill is proposing. This Bill opens up services for clinical officers to be doing specific tasks in treatment and prescription of medicine. This is a good thing. They will now be guided. Initially, a clinical officer used to do everything. At times, they could do surgery and people used to die in the theatre. That has not been very well taken care of in the past and nobody was held responsible. The Bill provides functions, compensation and establishment of the clinical officers, the training and discipline. The cost of treatment in this country is beyond the capacity of most Kenyans who are very poor people. Right now, everybody is opening a small clinic and the main hospitals have been deserted. Most of these medical practitioners such as clinical officers and nurses have opened their private businesses. As a result, we are compromising the functions of the people who are practising medicine, as it is more or less commercialised. It is unfortunate that our doctors and nurses have been on the streets for the last two months. This should not be the case and somebody must take responsibility and negotiate, despite the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that has been proposed. Those are our men and women who are practising medicine. The Ministry of Health and nurses should have some human face. Many Kenyans are dying and hospitals have been deserted. Kenyans cannot afford to seek private treatment. It is high time the Government took responsibility and came back to the negotiation table with the doctors and nurses, so that they can reach an amicable solution to that problem - which is long overdue."
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