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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Musyoka",
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        "legal_name": "Susan Mbinya Musyoka",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I take this opportunity to thank Hon. Sang for this Bill. I support it. What is happening in this country and what was done by Dr. Matiang’i is good for this country as far as education is concerned. When it comes to clinical officers, I think we need regularization and standardisation. The institutions that are working to produce clinical officers must be sound, well-regulated and of good standard. Clinical officers play a very important role in this country. We have seen at this time when doctors have been on strike, they have done their best to keep the patients that they can alive. On the doctors’ strike, as a doctor, I am really disturbed. I feel very sad that it has been more than 70 days and the doctors are still on strike. It is important that, even as we talk about the role clinical officers play, the issue of doctors is resolved immediately. We do not want to know what the CS and PS have issues with. It is important that doctors go back to work. I have lost two very close relatives just because the doctors are on strike. In Machakos Level 5 Hospital, we have all the equipment. We have good dialysis machines but they cannot work without the doctors. We have all manner of equipment but we need doctors back to work. It does not pay to continue having counter accusations and hard stance. Putting doctors in jail was something unforgivable. I am glad they are out but that is not enough. It is important that the CS sits down and puts the doctors back to work. Patients cannot wait any longer. We have already done enough injustice in this country and it is important that we see a solution arrived at. Unless we are saying that the Ministry of Health is moribund, we need to see action. Action must be taken now. We do not need to wait for things like referendums. We also do not want to wait for issues of the Constitution. This is like an emergency that has taken too long to be resolved. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me a chance to air this. I feel that we have grieved enough as a country. We are in a state that we cannot continue anymore and a solution has to be arrived at immediately. As one of the Members said, the buck stops with the President. So, we appeal, even as we ask for votes and running around asking people to register that we need to address this immediately as an emergency. If possible, we should see our doctors back to work as early as yesterday. Thank you very much."
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