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    "id": 1020961,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1020961/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Likoni, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mishi Mboko",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mishi Juma Khamisi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. From the outset I want to congratulate Hon. Gladys Wanga for bringing this Bill. Before we had several Motions, even in the last Parliament, talking about cancer. Today we are talking about this Bill brought by her. I congratulate her. It is known and it is in public domain that cancer has robbed so many Kenyans – the young, the old, the poor and the rich. The likes of Bob Collymore and even our colleague here, Hon. Okoth, who also died from cancer. I want to agree with what Hon. Gladys Wanga has just said that there is need to have some training so that we can have more medical personnel in oncology. It is because this disease is a very serious one and there are a lot of people suffering from it. But when we look at the number of oncologists we have in this country, it is really pathetic. For instance, before devolution, the Coast General Hospital in Mombasa, used to have only one oncologist who could be there to cater for the entire region. The other counties like Kilifi and Kwale did not have any. Even today, it is unfortunate that we still have counties which do not have even one oncologist. So, you just wonder how these people survive with the many cases of cancer increasing day by day. Apart from just having more oncologists in the various cadres like the radiation oncologists, therapy oncologists and nurses who are also doing oncology, we also need to have some satellite clinics. These satellite clinics can be there so that Kenyans can access some services like free screening, early diagnosis, palliative care and also being taught about cancer. Up to now there are some communities which do not believe that cancer exists. An instance is where I come from. Cervical cancer causes women to bleed throughout. People say it is witchcraft and call it"
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