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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Seneta",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mary Yiane Senata",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to also contribute to this very important Bill. I also want to add my voice to this Bill. It has come at the right time. It is high time we regulate that very important sector. Health is a very important basic need. We need to make sure that we regulate that sector so that Kenyans can be served in a proper way. Clinical officers should be trained and given licences to operate without giving them a hard time. When we go round in our counties, we see many people who are either opening clinics or chemists. They are running them without proper licensing. This Bill is a way of regulating that so that we make sure that clinical officers operate in an orderly way and can serve without having many problems. I also concur with my colleagues that, most of the time in our clinics, it is clinical officers who are on duty throughout. They are the ones who are accessible. They need proper training and registration. We need proper data on how many clinical officers we have, how many of them are operating and at which levels. That is because today, we just see nurses and a few clinical officers who are not even well paid. This Bill has come at the right time when we need to improve our health sector. We also need to have sanity in our health departments. I also concur with the rest of my colleagues that what has been going on in our counties for the last 70 days - having our doctors on strike - is a very sad situation. Many Kenyans are suffering. Many of them are rushing to the private hospitals and they cannot even afford or manage. I think we made a mistake by devolving health. We may need to think of returning health to the national Government because county governments may not have the capacity to handle doctors’ issues. We need to sit together and agree as Kenyans on how best to tackle it. Some of our counties argue that they do not even have the monies, while some say that they have the money to pay doctors. We shall get into a situation where there is no standard in handling issues in the health sector. With regard to the issue of infrastructure, we now have a situation where we do not have proper standards in our counties. You find some counties constructing small dispensaries with no 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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