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    "id": 838892,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Butula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Oyula",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph H Maero Oyula",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. I stand to support the amendments under the Health Laws (Amendment) (National Assembly Bill No. 14 of 2018). These amendments are meant to realign the various Acts to be in line with the Constitution. This alignment will help stabilise various units such as the pharmacists, physiotherapists and others. As we realign these units and bring them in line with the Constitution, there is one area that needs to be looked into by the Ministry of Health. The personnel section of the Ministry of Health is still in turmoil. That is why we have a lot of strikes by medical practitioners; the doctors, nurses and many others. The Ministry of Health needs to come up with amendments to ensure that a commission is established to bring all the medical personnel together, like we have the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). The issue of devolution which has lead to the sending of doctors, nurses and others to the counties was done without taking into account how the affected personnel were going to be remunerated. The counties are remunerating the medical personnel at different rates, yet they were trained together. It is my opinion that a commission be set up to bring all medical personnel together the same way we have teachers under a commission. This will reduce the number of strikes in this country."
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