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    "id": 1029550,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1029550/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "supposed to flag and revive the health sector. It should not be in the situation that we are in, that we still have less than 1,000 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds across the county. Madam Temporary Speaker, my final point is that as we look for a vaccine, where is the place of indigenous African knowledge; indigenous science and technology. Everyone is focusing on a vaccine that will come from the UK or USA, and yet Africans had a primitive way of vaccination. We had a system of self-infection to create immunity. Even before the first European vaccine was created, Africans were practicing vaccination. Where is the agency in this country encouraging the adoption of indigenous African knowledge in search for a vaccine and a sustainable solution and cure to COVID- 19? That is the challenge I want this Committee to look into. It should bring that relevant body so that we can engage universities, our institutes of science and research and find some synergies between them and our indigenous institutions so that we can have a homegrown solution. We can proudly sell to the world that Kenya and Africa has come up with a solution to a virus that has afflicted and tortured the entire world."
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