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    "id": 1012957,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1012957/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "When you asked anyone in the community what they wanted to do, they wanted to be a nurse, a teacher or a doctor. Nowadays everybody wants to study procurement. I do not understand what happened. Procurement is the most sought after course these days. On Thursday 15th April, 2020, while chairing the Committee on the COVID-19 Situation in Kenya, after chairing over 70 sessions I became a healthcare volunteer. I got to learn a lot about these community health workers. We met a consortium of community health workers, led by one Julius Mbeya of Lwala Community Alliance; we met Dr. Angela Gichaga from the Financing Alliance for Health; Dr. Meshack Ndirangu from Amref Health Kenya; Ms. Doreen Kuduoli from Medic Mobile Africa; Mr. Victor Rotich from An Eye 4 Africa; Ms. Caroline for Kibra; Mr. Omala; Mr. Wendo from Dandelion Africa; and Living Goods. Madam Deputy Speaker, they brought to the Floor not just to the great work that community health volunteers have done in this country, but also the challenges that they face; and not just the opportunities that present themselves if we focus on community health services, but also the successes that have been seen across the world. The greatest pointer of the impact of community health workers was in the fight against the Ebola Pandemic in West Africa. Community health workers played a critical role in driving the success of the Ebola Pandemic response. The world still wonders how they were able to deal with something that was much more contagious and deadly than COVID-19. If you get Ebola on a Friday, by Sunday you are dead. However, because of community health volunteers--- I want acknowledge them, especially the ones in my county, Nairobi City County. They are the ones that know each and every household. They know who stays where, which family has which preexisting conditions; who has diabetes, who did not get a polio shot, who has not been vaccinated; who is pregnant, and when we expect a new child. Madam Deputy Speaker, one of the key issues in designing an effective healthcare system--- COVID-19 has shown us the vulnerability and the soft underbelly of our healthcare system. The most important is information which becomes power. That is why I believe we need to relook at this Managed Equipment Services (MES) Report. The issue of healthcare information system is important. It helps one know what to procure, which kind of drugs are needed in what area, the epidemic likely to come upon certain areas and what people are dealing with. That has not been done despite the huge investment that was put in to address the issue of information."
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