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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "every direction in this Chamber because of poor public hygiene; shaking hands with somebody who has been sneezing and he stretches his hand to shake yours. If you do not shake the hand, they think you are arrogant without knowing that you are caring about your health. Sen. (Dr.) Zani, you need to look at some of the practical and applicable COVID- 19 protocols and incorporate them in this Bill, because they have been making very major strides in improving public hygiene and making people realize and understand that failing to shake hands is not a matter of disrespect for each other, but a matter of public health. That failing to sit so close to each other for no reason is not a matter of arrogance but a matter of public hygiene. That going to less crowded places including churches, bars and areas of recreation is not because you do not want to interact with people, but because it is important that we keep a safe distance for purposes of each other’s hygiene. Communicable diseases can be eliminated if we impose all these measures on ourselves. More importantly, as I finish, is the need - I agree with Sen. Sakaja - that perhaps in the future as this House helps to design allocation of revenues to counties, we try to also ring-fence some portion of resources that will be geared towards public health - public health that will help improve health for everybody. There are places in this country where people just take milk from the cows’ udder and drink it. It is a simple thing to tell them to boil the milk because the milk remains yours. Kids go to the udder and suckle directly. They should be told not to be in a hurry because the milk will still come out of the udder and it should be boiled. It takes no effort to boil milk and give it to the kid as they will grow healthier. All these things amount to public health concerns. We are now going back to the basics. Perhaps those who are young, like Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura do not know that there existed officers in Government called Bora Afya . In my area, we shortened it and started calling them borafya, they were called Bora Afya. They provided good health services. Sen. Poghisio may remember this."
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