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    "id": 838830,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/838830/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "I want to bring your attention to the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board, which has been locking out people because of being conservative. At times, there are people who call themselves specialists, yet they have not undergone training, but the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board goes ahead to register them. I have a case in mind, which I will not mention because I have taken it to the Departmental Committee on Health. There is a certain eye doctor who has not undertaken the specialist training required and has taken advantage of the gaps to register his practice. That practitioner has gone ahead and brought doctors from abroad as businessmen whom I am not saying are quacks, to operate on Kenyans and yet they are not supervised by any specialist. So, ophthalmologists, the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board and many other specialists are run by some bureaucrats who use the gaps to register people who are not suitable. Under the Pharmacy and Poisons Act, there is another major thing which we all know as one of the four pillars, not only by the current President, but even of his late father. It is one of the four pillars that we had when we gained Independence. I am very pleased that President Uhuru Kenyatta has taken over and ran with the pillars which even his late father, our founding President Jomo Kenyatta, had given much importance. However, under the present system… I am a son of a doctor and I have been in the medical field as a volunteer for nearly 40 years of my life. I have never seen the sort of advantage medical professionals take on the poor as it is today."
}