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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Masinga, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Mwalyo",
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        "legal_name": "Joshua Mbithi Mwalyo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to air my views on the Health Laws (Amendment) Bill. First of all, I would like to thank the Committee that has worked hard to bring these amendments. I believe these amendments are being done to better our healthcare facilities and to run those facilities in a professional manner. In my view, as we pass these amendments, we need to look into very serious issues that are happening in our hospitals, especially in the counties and in the constituencies. This is because all the doctors have concentrated on the Level 5 hospitals, but Level 3 and 4 hospitals have no doctors. When you go to hospital, the first thing they do is to add you water because there would be nobody to check what you are suffering from. Because that might be the basic training, it is what they start with. I am just amazed that in my constituency there is a Level 3 hospital and not even a single doctor visits that hospital not even once. Were they to do a rotational routine and come to see patients time and again, then the patients would be used to those days that doctors visit. The only person available there is one clinical officer and one nurse. It is very sad at a time like this, when the Government has allocated a lot of money to healthcare, that our mothers and wives go to deliver and then the babies die because of mishandling. Therefore, as the amendments sail through, we should add an amendment that there should be at least one doctor in every Level 3 and Level 4 hospital so that they can deal with the serious cases that patients complain about. It is also very difficult for somebody to work on an empty stomach. They keep complaining to us that they have not been paid for a month or two. If someone has children, they have already been sent away from school. Imagine a doctor who is unable to educate his or her children. It is very sad. Therefore, as we amend this law, let us do it for the better, not just for the sake of amending it and keeping it in the archives. I would like the Committee, as it concludes this matter, to take matters of health very seriously. The regulations should be able to bring to book some of the doctors who have never been to a training school but they call themselves doctors. You find them injecting people without knowing which proper place to inject, more so in the chemists. Anybody who has gone to a small training would like to open a chemist to start selling drugs. You do not even know which drug to give. You do not even know how to read a doctor’s prescription but you keep giving drugs. Some patients are affected by these drugs because they are given without knowing what it is they are being given. Therefore, I would like good regulations that will be able to curtail all these chemists and the technicians that work in them. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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