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    "id": 725292,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "they are given the job, they mess around and do not do the correct thing. They should, therefore, be vetted properly and an in-house examination administered to determine whether they are qualified for the job. This will get rid of quacks and save us the fear of getting somebody being treated by an unqualified medical practitioner. On the issue of inspection of premises, if you go to the countryside, you will find that clinics have been opened somewhere. The conditions of those clinics are filthy and do not qualify to be clinics. This is the case and yet you will find someone there with some small bottles of medicine and some syringes. You will be told that, that is a hospital. That is very dangerous and we cannot compromise the health of the sick. If you are sick and you go to a place where health conditions are compromised, you might develop another disease worse than what took you to the hospital. So, the inspection of the premises to verify the cleanliness and the standards will be the work of the Council. Once it is prudently done, it will be to the benefit of the patients. There is another issue of double practice which is very common in this country and it has been put clearly in this Bill. This might not augur well with the clinical officers out there. There is a clinical officer who is employed by a certain county government in a Level 5 or 4 hospital, but in a market nearby he or she has a private clinic. When one has divided loyalties, it becomes very difficult to work professionally. That is why I agree with this Bill that if you are employed by the Government, stick there. If you have your own clinic, be registered, get the correct documents and qualifications. But if during working hours you are at your place of employment and in the evening or lunch hour you are in your clinic, you will compromise the two and you might not be effective in one area. You will either be effective at your place of employment or in your own practice. I find this important despite the fact that there may be hullaballoo out there because most of the medical practitioners have these clinics but it is important to do one thing at a time. That is when you do things professionally."
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