{"id":838829,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/838829/?format=json","text_counter":183,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kisumu East, Independent","speaker_title":"Hon. Shakeel Shabbir","speaker":{"id":140,"legal_name":"Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed","slug":"shakeel-shabbir"},"content":"When I remember Russia as a very young child, I can recall there was Russia Hospital in Kisumu. We thought a medical doctor then was a specialist in everything. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, that was during your youth and mine when a doctor was a dentist, optician and everything. However, nowadays we have specialists. In the old Russia Hospital they would go to see a specialist first, so a doctor was never a general practitioner, but had to specialise in certain fields. Regarding this aspect, I have noted lacunas or gaps which have not been properly addressed especially when they…"}