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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to support this important Motion and thank Hon. (Ms.) Gladys Wanga for thinking wise to initiate it. It is a fact that cancer is a leading cause of deaths not only in this county but in the whole world. As was aptly put by Hon. (Prof.) Nyikal, cancer can be detected earlier, and if so, it can be treated and managed. We are in a stage in this country where when one is diagnosed with cancer, it is like a death sentence and one resigns to fate and waits for death. That should not be the case. The fact that we do not have enough oncologists in this day and age, very many years after Independence is a great indictment on us in terms of our priorities in manpower development. I totally support this Motion because if we can spare some money either from the national Government or the county governments and ensure we train enough manpower in the field of oncology, we shall have made a very big stride in as far as addressing and containing cancer is concerned. Hon. Deputy Speaker, because of prevalence of cancer amongst our people, it has also become a cash cow to quacks going around as medical experts. We have had a lot of referrals to hospitals in India of late. Unfortunately, these referrals have ended up in deaths. In fact, these days it is said that when one is referred to India for treatment of cancer, it is like you are sent on a final vacation that ultimately one has to die. It is a sad state of affair. This Motion has come at an opportune moment in our times. Cancer is a disease that is not reserved for a specific group of people or a category of citizens. We have of late learnt that it is affecting everyone; the young, old, women, men, poor and the rich. It is a disease that should concern all of us. I appeal to my colleagues to look at this matter more seriously and support it. With those few remarks, I support."
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