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    "id": 1019751,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I stand to support Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura’s Petition. When the President decided to make UHC as one of his Big Four legacy agenda items, it was a really amazing thing because it is a constitutional implementation mechanism. Article 43 of the Constitution is very clear to everybody that every person has a right to highest standards of healthcare, especially people that need it the most. These are people that have post-operative care and are dealing with things such as kidney failure. They are the neediest in the society. Therefore, insurance should ideally be coming in at our hour of need. In this case, to be told that they do not get any post-operative care is really sad. I hope that this House will do justice in the implementation of Article 43 of the Constitution and in the support of the Big Four Agenda as far as UHC is concerned. We need also to ensure that our people have dignity even in sickness. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have sponsored a Bill on the dignity of human beings, the preservation of human dignity and enforcement of socio-economic rights. I cannot think of a better thing for us to be dealing with than the healthcare of people that have life threatening kidney failure. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are becoming the number on killer of our people. I know that in the past, a lot of focus has been given to communicable diseases. With the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), all our attention is on communicable diseases, but we still have non-communicable diseases as a number one killer in this country. Kidney failure is one of them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I hope that the Committee on Health which is going to deal with this Petition, comes to wide ranging recommendations that are going to ensure that we implement our Constitution, support our President in the implementation of his Big Four agenda as regards to health coverage, but more importantly, we preserve the dignity of our people by giving them the most basic healthcare that they deserve. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support."
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