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    "id": 737172,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "The establishment of the council will retain some of our good brains who can help our people. I know of cases where sick or paralysed persons, instead of seeking proper treatment, are treated by quacks in the village and the patients end up becoming worse. We have cases where patients are taken to countries like India, South Africa, Europe and the United States of America because of lack of professionals in that field. That field of medicine should be looked into. I have seen quite a number of regulations that have come up relating to local practice. Therefore, we should go ahead and support this Bill so that we have a council of occupational therapists to deal with cases of quacks and punish them. There are many referral hospitals which are coming up in this country. One of them is in Trans-Nzoia. I do not know whether there are enough staff for that Referral Hospital. Given that there is that regulation and the license, some of them will go into private practice. We should post staff to the various referral hospitals which lack personnel. As Dr. Nyikal has said, there are almost 42 cadres in medicine and that is just one of them. It is good that Hon. Sang came up with this Bill so that there can be discipline. At the same time, let us talk about the payment of those professionals. Someone takes five or six years to get properly trained and when he or she finally qualifies, the remuneration is not up to date. We then have people moving out of this country and going elsewhere because we cannot retain them and pay them as required. This is a very good Bill and we should support it. Let us make some few amendments during the Committee of the whole House stage to make it proper. With those few remarks, I support the Bill. We should pass and fast-track it so that we can assist that type of medical discipline."
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