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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dido",
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        "legal_name": "Col (Rtd) Ali Rasso Dido",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion by Hon. Wanga. To say that cancer is not an epidemic is an understatement. In the constituency I come from, over the few years I have been the Member of Parliament, out of 10 deaths, six or seven are cancer related. That is a serious state of affair. What Hon. Wanga has raised, particularly in the area of training oncologists, is very important. We need to go further than that and task the Government to set up machinery or network so that our people are screened for cancer at every centre that is close to our people, either at the district or sub-district level. This will ensure that there is that strategy of early detection. Nowadays, the fear of diseases like HIV or TB is not that much but as soon as somebody has been detected to have cancer, people consider it as the disease of death. This is because most The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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