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    "id": 725284,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dido",
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        "legal_name": "Col (Rtd) Ali Rasso Dido",
        "slug": "col-rtd-ali-rasso-dido"
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. I support it on the basis that the first line of medics we find in our rural areas are clinical officers. Indeed, 95 per cent of our patients in this country, other than, maybe, those who attend private hospitals, are attended to by clinical officers. There are Kenyans who since they were born have never met a doctor but have always been attended to by clinical officers. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, reading this Bill, I see a line of courage and fear: Courage in the sense that the first clinical officers at diploma level were trained in 1969 and graduate clinical officers were first trained in 2009. It is a whopping 40 years that a cadre of medics offering such tremendous services to our people has failed to be recognised. I see fear in the sense that the drafters of this Bill want to tell us that clinical officers are neither doctors nor nurses. There is a lot of cautionary attempt in this Bill. We are here to make good laws, not pedestrian laws that can slip through our fingers. Any offensive clause in this Bill must be expunged. This Bill attempts to frame the horizon that a clinical officer must practise to even prescribe equipment available to a clinical officer. If we allow that to happen, we will not be doing our duties in legislating for this country. 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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