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    "id": 1074230,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Ministry of Health are putting in place. We agree some of the schools in the country do not have running water or sanitizers. What partnership are they having between the county governments and national Government to ensure that our children sanitize and wash their hands? I am happy today I heard in the news that one of the leading banks in this country has donated masks and sanitizers to low-income areas like Mukuru kwa Njenga, Kayaba, Kibra, among other areas. As we open the first term in July, the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health must assure parents that the Fourth Wave that they are predicting will happen in July will not interfere with the programme. Mr. Speaker, Sir, going into the future, there should be mass vaccination. That is the only solution. We have seen reports by the World Health Organization (WHO). According to them and other scientists, when you have the full dose of Pfizer or AstraZeneca and get infected by Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), the side effects might not be as dire as without the full dose. We must agree as a country through the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education and as the Government that we should provide mass vaccination for our people. This is so that the economy and schools can reopen. I hope the Committee on Education led by our able Chair Sen. (Dr.) Milgo, will sit with the Ministry of Education and come up with practical measures. This is to ensure that going into the future, vaccines will be available. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I even challenge the Pharmacies and Poisons Board (PPB) that they should allow - individuals, private practitioners or Government – to import as many vaccines as possible that have been approved by the WHO. This is so that Senators like us who can pay for vaccines can be allowed to take the vaccine that has been approved. The free vaccine can be given to ordinary Kenyans like the mama mbogas, mikokoteni people and what have you. I have seen my neighbor, Sen. Nyamunga of Kisumu County - we are being told there is an Indian variant in Kisumu County and we are worried because we are neighbors. The national Government and the Ministry of Education is yet to assure residents of Kisumu and neighboring counties like Nandi, Kericho, Kakamega and Vihiga on the possibility of explosion of the variant. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are yet to be given a way forward. What is the Ministry of Education surveillance doing? The last time we heard it was in Kibos and no one has updated us. The first Madaraka Day celebration in Kisumu County is fast approaching. I know many people will attend. As a county, we are also worried. This is so that this Indian variant does not make us restless. As I conclude---"
}