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    "id": 937488,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Petition. Up to very recently, I was quite ignorant on the challenges in the health sector until I received a very interesting phone call. For the four years that I was in high school, there was a gentleman called Kenneth Shinga Mwarabu. He remains to be my good friend. For the four years that we were in high school, he led in every exam that we sat for. Eventually, when we did our Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE), he was among the best 100 students in the country. He moved on to University of Nairobi (UoN) where he studied medicine. After six years, he moved on to study a Master of Surgery degree at one of the local institutions. About one month ago, this young man called me requesting if I could assist him secure a working opportunity. I could not reconcile the fact that such a brilliant, talented and gifted person---. The general thinking is to whom much has been given in terms of intellectual endowment, then with so much ease they will be able to secure employment opportunities. That is how it works the world all over. However, because of the mismanagement of the health sector under this framework of county governments and the poor labour relations that have followed since the onset of devolution, medical practitioners continue to suffer. Clinical officers who have brought this Petition before this House are an example. I now understand why sometimes the headquarters of the Ministry of Health is mischievously referred to as “Mafia House” as opposed to Afya House. The thinking at the Ministry of Health is the fact that people believe so much in brick and motor as opposed to the soft skills and ensuring that the people who provide the skills in terms of treating people are well taken care of. They are more interested in the hiring of all these equipment. There is no fool in this House; everybody knows what the motivation is in terms of buying all the equipment"
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