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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First of all, let me congratulate Hon. Sang, the Member for Bureti. To the people of Bureti who made the choices, the choices were not made rightly. But, I believe he will come back to the 12th Parliament through the independent route. I believe Hon. Sang has brought many Bills regarding the medical field. I think he is the first one who has too many Bills regarding the medical field. The Occupational Therapists (Training, Registration and Licensing) Bill is very important in the sense that we will have a proper structure in training, registration and licensing of occupational therapists. As it has been said by the Mover of the Bill, occupational therapists are very important in our lives – in our everyday lives. They are the ones who come in when we suffer from disabilities and we are initially not sure how to go about them. We just take it for granted that we have hands, eyes or any part of our bodies. It is just like a reflex action. When we miss that reflex action, who helps us? It is the occupational therapist. It is a very important profession that needs regulation. It also needs training because in his proposal, Hon. Sang has mentioned that we have only 404 occupational therapists in Kenya. I believe most of them must be based in Nairobi unless we need them all over the country. Their services are in demand. Many people do not appreciate what they exactly do like he mentioned earlier on regarding the co-joined twins at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). The mother of the co-joined twins comes from Meru County. I visited them a couple of times. It was an emotional drain on the mother because she wanted the children to be operated on much earlier but the hospital would not agree to that. Had an occupational therapist talked to the lady and made her understand why the twins could not be operated earlier, it would have made her life much easier. There were times she was even thinking of running away from hospital; she 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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