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    "id": 784566,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) S.W. Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "of Kenya should also immediately review the conduct and practice of clinical officers involved in this case. All medical regulatory bodies including KMPDB, Nursing Council of Kenya, Clinical Officers Council of Kenya and Pharmacy and Poisons Board of Kenya immediately should review their standard operating procedures and align them to emergent good practices in the world. We are also saying that a regulatory body should meet punitive measures on the health personnel reported and proved to have mishandled the patient in this or any other case that has been reported. We also recommend that the hospital should strictly enforce the referral strategy and ensure proper referral documentation on admission is adhered to. The Ministry of Health should also roll out full operationalisation of the Health Act 2017, which was passed just before the last Parliament ended. That Act has the solution to many of the problems plaguing the health sector. Further, with almost a quarter admitted at KNH being trauma patients as a result of road accidents, there is need for the country to consciously develop road safety guidelines with a view of enhancing safety in our public transportation system. Just to note also on the same, KNH needs to have specific rooms and wards for patients with specific diseases. Currently, there is confusion. You will find a patient who was to undergo surgery, another patient who is not undergoing surgery and another patient with a different condition mixed in the same room. We feel like somebody somewhere is thriving through the confusion to take advantage. On the financial status and human resource, the Government should adequately support KNH in terms of resource allocation. I have already said that. To provide referral and curative service in the country, the KNH and all other referral facilities should invest and put in place a robust financial monitoring system to ensure that fees collected in the course of offering services are well captured and accounted for. The Hospital should also strengthen existing partnerships and create new linkages with development partners to support the institution. This will supplement the resources allocated to KNH by the Government to support delivery of services. The recommendations are many. I know Members have gone through this Report, but I also want to say that the Ministry of Health should device a way of ring-fencing health funds reimbursed from counties by NHIF to be strictly used for health purposes."
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