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    "speaker_name": "Endebess, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "would not harm anybody. He is a mental case. I think our police officers need better training in terms of how to disarm mental patients. It is very unfortunate that that young man was shot at. He is admitted at KNH. When I visited Bera in the hospital, I found that he is chained and guarded by police officers. How do you chain and guard a mental case? This is a very unfortunate circumstance, especially with our mental patients. Fortunately, MTRH has a holding hall for mental cases. That is very commendable. However, one of the biggest challenges for all our referral facilities is that we do not have a proper referral service. If you go to KNH or MTRH, you will find them attending to patients who should be treated in dispensaries, health centres and sub-county hospitals. It is high time our ministry came up with proper structures for referral and how the national referral facilities should operate, so that we decongest KNH and MTRH, which need to concentrate on specialised services. We take patients to India, Europe and other places because our specialised doctors in the referral hospitals such as KNH and MTRH are not able to do the work for which they have been trained. They are made to attend to cases which should be treated at the dispensaries, health centres, district hospitals or county hospitals. This is a good Report. I really commend the Committee. They should not stop at that level. They need to go further and see how the hospitals can adopt best practices and get back to the status in which they were some years back. I support."
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