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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "three parties will work together and have an assessment of the drugs that are needed in a particular county for the purpose of delivering them and ensuring that lives are saved. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Bill speaks to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3, on health and the wellbeing of everyone. All nations of the world are looking forward to ensuring that they commit themselves to the SDGs. Therefore, when the amendments of this Bill come into force, they will ensure that SDG 3 is implemented. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am happy that this Bill gives authority to the county governments, because KEMSA will not just wake up from anywhere and decide to supply drugs. Clause 6 of the Bill says that county governments have a say. Therefore, this will ensure that drugs that are procured are relevant to the county. Counties will prescribe drugs that will be used in the counties. They will not procure expired drugs, because everyone will be accountable. The county governments, KEMSA and the national Government will be accountable. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is need to account for expired drugs which, when used on patients, end up having negative effects. I watched in the media where a child was injected with a drug and, afterwards, the child got a disability as a result of the drug. It was not the right drug because it had expired. This relationship will ensure that someone somewhere is brought to account for such careless mistakes, whether it is KEMSA, county governments or the national Government. This Bill is quite handy, especially when you look at Clause 7 and the Amendment in Section 21. It says that the council needs to be consulted before the CS makes regulations. This is very healthy, because if the CS just makes regulations from nowhere and without being informed on what exactly needs to go into the regulations, the users of those regulations might actually not accept them. I am anticipating that there will be public participation when we are coming up with regulations with regards to the users of this Bill. There is need for participation among relevant stakeholders. When they understand the regulations, they will not flaunt them. I want to give a case in point of some regulations of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). There are some teachers who were interdicted because they had not kept abreast with the regulations and code of ethics guiding their profession. Therefore, there is need for the relevant stakeholders to be aware of the regulations so that if they flaunt them, they have no one to blame but themselves. Mr. Deputy Speaker, ignorance is no defence. I also strongly support the issue of drawing rights. This is an issue that has come out in this amendment, and it is a noble idea. Both the national Government and the county governments will draw some rights, meaning that it will be a win-win situation. Both the county governments and the national Government will be satisfied that whatever is happening is serving both levels. There is also the issue of consultation. I mentioned earlier that consultation should be done before procuring the drugs so that drugs do not become useless by the time they get into the counties. When it comes to the issue of procurement, if the person or organization that is supplying the drugs is not given an objective limit, they will not mind supplying. They can even oversupply so that they get their take. I want to give an example of what is happening currently. You will find that some schools in this country have more books than the students that need to use those books. This is because suppliers The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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