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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dido",
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        "legal_name": "Col (Rtd) Ali Rasso Dido",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in this country, the KMTCs have been at the heart of what should be a healthy Kenya. If we must make Kenya a healthy nation, then we must invest in KMTCs, and not just churn out young graduates in the name of nurses, clinical officers and medical practitioners. I want to congratulate the Mover of this Bill because for a long time, there has been fear of recognising and identifying clinical officers. This Bill affirms that clinical officers must be recognised and given their space in the field of medical practitioners in Kenya. People recognised for providing medical services in this country are doctors and nurses but it is the clinical officers that provide valuable services in most of our hospitals. There are good sections within this Bill that must be reinforced, particularly the area of discipline that you alluded to. More often than not, medical practitioners get away with crimes that border on their profession. It is important to have an enforceable part of those who can instil discipline within this profession. Secondly, the private health enterprise is so lucrative that anyone can open a clinic on any street without being interrogated to assess their abilities and ascertain whether due diligence has been done. This Bill points out that individuals will only go into private practice after two years of working under their seniors. We need to look at the training of clinical officers as doctors. Ninety per cent of clinical officers’ training is what doctors do in a five year stretch training at the schools of medicine. This Bill must point out that clinical officers, through vigorous examination, must be allowed to enrol at the schools of medicine if they are fit. Funds for their training must come from the Government. In Kenya, one doctor attends to over 4,000 patients. If we recruit clinical officers with the right grades from KMTCs, it will be very easy to progress them to do medicine. They are likely to take a shorter time. That way, our hospitals will be manned by properly trained doctors. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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