{"id":725277,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/725277/?format=json","text_counter":164,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Dawood","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":2572,"legal_name":"Abdul Rahim Dawood","slug":"abdul-rahim-dawood"},"content":"Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First of all, I congratulate my friend and brother, Hon. Sang for bringing the Clinical Officers (Training, Registration and Licensing) Bill to this House. It is very timely. Since I was born, I have talked to a few people whom I call doctors, but it is only recently when I found out that they were clinical officers. They have been performing very well. I would not have known that they were clinical officers until they were introduced the other day in a meeting. I have in mind Samuel Njeru who does many eye operations. I call him an eye surgeon. He is now a lecturer. He has been a clinical officer for, I think, more than 20 or 30 years. Every week when we have a function in Meru for eye patients, he does more than 100 trachoma and cataract 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."}