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    "id": 725274,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyura",
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        "legal_name": "Michael Aringo Onyura",
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    "content": "to be a doctor. We need to provide this sort of framework, organisation and system so that clinical officers can supervise and oversee themselves to make sure that we do not get quacks coming in. The issue of the disciplinary committee is very well put in the Bill. It will ensure that proper professional conduct is maintained; guidelines are given and standards and ethics are also maintained. Also, the representation of the board is quite clear there. Looking at the comments, it also seeks to ensure that representation of minorities and the gender rule is properly observed. The Bill talks about training as well, which is quite timely because, at the moment, there is widespread establishment of medical training centres. We now have medical training centres in nearly every county and it is now moving into sub-counties. It is important that we have a framework in which this is regulated and can be inspected to ensure that the right standards and procedures in terms of who can teach there and who qualify to be recruited as students is followed and achieved. The spirit of all this is to ensure that Kenyans get proper and top class services in our healthcare. The Constitution provides that healthcare and medical attention are a constitutional right for every Kenyan. Anything that we can do to strengthen that sector will be welcome. Another area that this Bill deals with very well and very timely is the issue of private practice. I know that with time, and as the population of clinical officers keeps increasing, more and more of those officers will wish to go into private practice. It is important that when they are in private practice, there is control, oversight, proper management and procedures. That is another avenue that can very easily be infiltrated by bad elements, quacks and the like. The part on private practice is very welcome and useful in this Bill. Even as we provide for that in this Bill, I hope that those who employ clinical officers, particularly in the Government and the private sector, will develop, motivate them and make sure that they stay in the country so that we do not have a large turnover. Finally, this is coming at a time when our medical services are really in a coma. What is happening with the doctors is very regrettable indeed. We call upon the parties that are concerned to ensure that the crisis is resolved speedily. If there are people to be arrested, both sides should go to jail. With those remarks, I beg to second this Bill. Thank you."
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