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    "id": 937491,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kibiru",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Charles Reubenson Kibiru",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support the Petition. This could be the sixth or the seventh Statement or Petition with regard to health issues in this country. I personally have brought a Statement to this House. It is high time that we asked ourselves, as a Senate, what is happening. If it is possible, I would recommend to the Committee to hold a huge stakeholders’ forum where the Senate will pronounce itself on the way forward on issues of health in the counties. We also need to ask ourselves whether what the doctors have been asking; that they need a medical practitioners commission is probably the way to go, so that this issue of salaries is well dealt with by a commission like the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). Mr. Speaker, Sir, we all know that the health sector is ailing. The other day, there were huge cries all over, that there was no insulin, no HIV/AIDS and malaria drugs. Everybody in the Ministry was working in panic. If the Committee can agree, let us have a forum where we will deliberate on the issues once and for all. As the Senate, we will pronounce ourselves on the way forward on this very essential devolved function. With those few remarks, I support the Petition."
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