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    "id": 1003316,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ijara, PDR",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Sophia Noor",
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        "legal_name": "Sophia Abdi Noor",
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    "content": "Exempting ambulances from taxation is a good thing but health services in this country have been a huge problem. It is very expensive for one to become sick. We have seen people who have sold their houses and everything and are now very poor because they have one person in the family who has been sick and they have used all their resources to finance treatment. So, I request that we should not look at ambulances only. Ambulances are a small component of the health services. Let us look holistically at health services. For example, on cancer patients, all cancer drugs are taxed. We have many people in the country suffering from cancer. In my constituency, the number of cancer cases are unbelievable. The Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and the Chair should not only look at exempting ambulances from taxation. They want to make us happy with ambulances when I know four people in my family are very sick and it is very expensive to treat them. So, let us look holistically at all the health services and let us have zero taxation on health so that we can reach out to people who are vulnerable and cannot afford health services and health insurance."
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