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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo, Jnr.",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, can we find a bishop here for cancer because we are vulnerable and will catch up with us. We lost a colleague here in the Senate. We went to bury a colleague, and yet we are not speaking enough about those ordinary Kenyans. You can imagine that while it is possible that this gentleman, even when he was suffering, had the benefit of a very good medical scheme – and we must thank the office of the Clerk that when we get sick you treat us well - I imagine what happens to Mama Mwikali and Mama Atieno. Chemotherapy is absolutely unaffordable. We must find a method of telling the national Government that when they borrow money, one of the things that they can borrow and we can accept is treatment for cancer. Here in Nairobi, cancer is not going to discriminate between the people who Sen. Millicent Omanga advocates for, those hustlers, or the people who others are advocating for, who do not belong to that grouping of people who are supposed to be the lower cadre of society. We continue commiserating with families, but as a Senate, we have not done enough to speak to the ordinary Kenyan, who is really suffering. In Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), for example, people are being detained. A lady has been detained at the KNH after delivering quadruplets and she was unable to settle her bill of Kshs2.8 million. I expected the Standing Committee of Health to say something about that lady because this is a public hospital. We are giving the national Government money. The Chairperson and Members are here, but we have not heard them say anything. What do they want to happen, so that they can talk about these people who are being detained in public hospitals? Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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