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    "id": 1020185,
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    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "country in terms of economy and at the same time, in terms of our health. We will also be able to compete with the rest of the world. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as we talk about oncology, it is a key area where as a representative of the people of Navakholo, I want to thank one, Prof. Wasike, who is a professor of oncology and who I shared with this Bill before I came here. He was very happy and embraced it. He said that it would bring relief to the medical staff who are constrained in terms of the ratio of doctors to patients. This means that they will offload some responsibilities to lower professionals to help manage people suffering from cancer. One thing that Hon. Wanga thought of and which is good, is the issue of telemedicine as read together with e-health. This means that if you are in the village where I come from, it will be easier for people to go to the nearest medical centre, get online and be assisted from as far as India or Europe. A medical professional can observe the kind of suffering the patient is undergoing. Therefore, anchoring this into law will ease the burden of travelling from Kenya to another country or from Kakamega to Nairobi simply because you want to see an oncologist who could have read your image online and advised the doctor wherever you were. It will save time and costs in terms of expenses. I thank Hon. Wanga for thinking on our behalf and on the behalf of many Kenyans to make it possible for us to look at the issues of cancer from that perspective. Medical health care is very expensive. The moment you resolve the issue of medical costs, it will ease the pocket of each and every Kenyan in terms of being able to live a better life. Cancer is both a hereditary and a lifestyle disease. I wish to remind all of us that as we look at the solution of attending to cancer patients, let us also improve on our lifestyles. Let us be careful in terms of how we live such that if we are taking too much of a certain substance which can cause cancer, we should avoid it. With regard to cancer that is hereditary, we can leave it to genetics to take its course. However, on the issue of lifestyle, let us invite nutritionists so that we can learn how to live better. With those few remarks, I beg to support the Bill."
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