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    "id": 878493,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/878493/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "(b) in section 9(1) by deleting the words “nursing commodities” appearing in Paragraph (i). Section 9(1) of the Nurses Act provides for the function and the annual report of the Nursing Council of Kenya. Paragraph (i) provides that it should have regard for the standards of nursing care, qualified staff, nursing commodities and facilities. This provision gives the Nursing Council of Kenya mandate over standards of, among others, nursing commodities. The Bill initially proposed the deletion of the words “nursing commodities” in Section 9(1)(i) of the Act. The rationale for the proposal was the need to align the provision with the current policy of separating the regulation of commodities from the regulation of health professionals in order to increase efficiency and effectiveness and reduce the cost of doing business. The proposal was also intended to implement Section 62 of the Health Act, 2017, that required the establishment of a single regulatory body to regulate health products and health technologies. From the foregoing reason, the President recommends that Section 9(1)(i) of the Nurses Act be amended by just deleting the words “nursing commodities”. This amendment was rejected by the House, thus the words remained in the Act."
}