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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chea",
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    "content": "powers to conduct impromptu visits to these facilities to be sure that there is a proper environment and infrastructure for training. We also realise that the Council, under Clause 5, is also empowered to ensure that there is a minimum entry in terms of academic requirements. This is very important because we really want to see a situation where graduates enter the profession at more or less an equal level. We do not want to see a situation where one gets a D+ and another gets a C+ and still find himself or herself in the same profession. This will bring conformity and there will be respect amongst the graduates. What is most important is the period after training and graduation as clinical officers. There is also need for some continuous education in their area of practice. We realise that in the field of medicine, so many things come up. There are very many diseases that come up and at times they appear to be very strange. There is need for the Council to seek funds elsewhere so that it can take its officers for higher training within the country or outside the country so that they can acquire special skills to enable them handle situations that might come up. I also want to make my contribution on the provisions of Clause 26(2), the one you have just alluded to. It is true that in any profession, there will be people who will go the wrong way. You cannot have a profession where 100 per cent of the people do things right. For that to be handled, there is need for a disciplinary committee. In this particular Bill, it would have been important to consider the question of natural justice. In this respect, a clinical officer who is suspected to have gone the wrong side, would be given an opportunity to defend himself. Most important, as you have alluded, there will also be an opportunity for him to appear with an advocate. This Bill, in my understanding, goes along way in creating work for our lawyers in the legal practice. It is an important Bill for that matter and Members should rise to the occasion and support it. Thank you."
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