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    "id": 784618,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A. B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "outpatients every day. The patients who go to KNH include those who have been knocked down by boda bodas, or persons who have slashed by their wives at night and have small scratches. It is admitting patients who ideally should have gone to dispensaries. That is where the problem is. There must be a referral system that any county dispensary or hospital cannot just refer anybody to KNH. There must be a systematic way of referring patients to KNH. There should a way to say that a particular matter cannot be handled by the Machakos Level 5 Hospital, Mama Lucy Hospital or Mbagathi Hospital. The management and the Departmental Committee on Health must look into this. Hon. Speaker, the other issue that I have a problem with is the fact that clinical officers, doctors and the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board members regulate themselves? It has never happened. Even in the National Police Service, we have IPOA, an independent oversight body. I saw that the board wants to investigate, but the chair of the board is Prof. Magoha, a man I respect a lot, and one of the people who were involved in the mix up is his son. That did not look tidy. If you want to deal with the nurse who caused the mix up, Mary Wahome, she is going to face the Kenya Nursing Council of Kenya. That cannot happen. There must be an independent regulator. Today, a doctor can do a poor diagnostic on a patient and the patient dies. When you want legal redress for your patient, you will be told..."
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