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    "id": 1017789,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Siaya CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Christine Ombaka",
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        "legal_name": "Christine Oduor Ombaka",
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    "content": "prevented. Prevention is better than cure, but prevention comes when people have information. So, we need to highlight and share information about cancer to know it just like we know a lot about HIV and AIDs whose information was everywhere in the newspapers, television, radio and shared in barazas . People were highly sensitized everywhere every now and again. I do not see that with cancer. That is what I want to encourage. As we pass laws here, we must make sure that implementation is practical and constant. We need to highlight that there is cancer and we need to go for checkup every year. I know it is expensive. Many people cannot afford to go for checkups on an annual basis. However, it is something that we need to be doing. We need to make our hospitals a little cheaper for our people. Many people fear to go to hospitals even for other diseases besides cancer because they fear the expenses that they will incur. So, when it comes to cancer, the fear is higher. It is a disease that one will be seeing a doctor constantly and it takes a lot of funds. We need to ensure that our hospitals are cheaper and accessible to our people. People should be treated fairly to feel comfortable to visit hospitals. As it has been highlighted before that, the hospitals that we have do not have experts. This disease is also in the rural areas. Oncologists that we are talking about are few to address the disease countrywide. You will find them concentrated in Nairobi. In Siaya where I come from, you will not find an oncologist. Tell me how a man or woman who is 70 years old suffering from cancer will find money to come to Nairobi for his treatment and stay there. It is too expensive. That is why we need more trainings for oncologists to be posted in other counties, so that every county and sub-county has an oncologist expert. Telemedicine has become the latest method in medicine. Just like other digital methods of learning and communication, it should be encouraged. Thank you, Hon. Wanga for this timely Bill. I support this Bill because it touches the heart of everybody. Every family in this country has seen the devastation that cancer brings to families. This Bill is coming at a time when we are devastated by many complications arising from difficult diseases, in the sense that they are difficult to treat, they are time consuming, life-long and expensive to treat. I support."
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