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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Samuel Atandi (",
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    "content": "Alego-Usonga, ODM): Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. From the outset, I would like to congratulate my sister, Hon. Gladys Wanga, for sponsoring this legislation. Because this legislation deals with cancer, let me begin by passing my condolences to a family of a great man, Mr. Lucas who rested yesterday. He was my teacher. He died from cancer complications. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, cancer is killing a lot of people in this country. Cancer is killing our people, not because we are unable to treat it but because by the time you are diagnosed with cancer, it is too late in the day. This Bill is trying to cure this problem. When you start visiting clinics and health centers, in most cases, you are suffering from illness but in the end, after visiting for close to two or three years, by the time it is detected that you are suffering from cancer, it is actually too late in the day. Therefore, the thinking in this Bill that oncology training should be given to all cadre of healthcare professionals is something that will help us a great deal in ensuring that everyone in the healthcare sector is able to detect cancer. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, cancer is not really a serious disease. It only becomes serious because by the time it is detected, it is too late. I would really like to support this legislation that everybody in the healthcare chain is going to have some little knowledge of cancer. That is going to help. Secondly, when you talk to leading oncologists in this country, the likes of Prof. Abinya, they will tell you that cancer medication is universal. The way oncologists would treat cancer in Kenya is the same way those in America, China, and the USA would.bThey use the same method. It is, therefore, important we advance the principle of telemedicine and ensure that we treat our patients through the use of technology."
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