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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Kibunguchy",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Wamalwa Kibunguchy",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Before I support this Bill, it is my pleasure to announce that the Court of Appeal has released the officials of the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists’ Union (KMPDU). I will talk about that later. That crisis is now behind us. I rise to support this Bill because it brings order in the clinical officer’s practice and training. As it has been alluded to, we have many institutions training clinical officers. Some private universities have gone further to offer Bachelor of Science in Clinical Medicine. We must have a law that will assist us in regulating the training to make sure that these institutions are proper and have been certified to be okay to train clinical officers. I support this Bill because it looks at things in a restrictive way. It closets clinical officers to deal with certain diseases. The paramedics are given certain medicines to work with. This Bill appreciates that there are many changes in disease patterns and treatment protocols. A clinical officer has been given a free hand to adapt to the changes as they come. We now have diseases that we never imagined of when we were training as doctors. We now have diseases that are occupying our minds day in, day out. When I was training as a medical doctor, we did not have a disease called HIV/AIDS but now we have and it is a reality with us. Diseases like Ebola, Dengue Fever and others were not there then but they are now a reality. Therefore, this Bill tries 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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