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    "id": 1020219,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1020219/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okelo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13457,
        "legal_name": "Jared Odoyo Okelo",
        "slug": "jared-odoyo-okelo-2"
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    "content": "We must provide access to affordable and essential medicine and vaccines. Cancer just like the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) should not be a death sentence. We know a lot of research has gone into HIV and cancer. A lot of medicine has been innovated that will help to push people as they wait to breath their last, but there are many who cannot afford them. So, what can we do as a country to make available the necessary medicine and make it affordable? That is where telemedicine comes in. If you were to visit a doctor, just by greeting him, you will spend Ksh6,000. The telemedicine approach will enable us to pay less for the same services that would otherwise be physically got. We need to involve ourselves, as a county, on matters of research. At the moment we are battling COVID-19 and we are looking at the USA and Oxford University in the United Kingdom (UK) to come up with a vaccine that will help us fight the virus. Why can Kenya not be involved? I know we work closely with the CDC and KEMRI. Why can we not also have a lot of funds for research, so that at the end of the day Kenya can also be hailed as one of those countries that helped address the plight of the world? Finally, we need to see how best we support palliative care centres. Most of the people who have…"
}