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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Imenti, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rahim Dawood",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I would like to support this Bill. On 5th March, 2014, I brought to this August House a Motion that was meant to set up ICU’s and blood transfusion units in every constituency in this country. Like the Seconder, Hon. Eseli, has said, we should have put it in the budget long time ago. Blood transfusion is an essential provision of health care especially for vulnerable people such as women who experience hemorrhage during child birth, children suffering from severe anemia due to malaria, malnutrition and victims of trauma, accidents and other disasters. Patients who are suffering from sickle cell disease need blood transfusion too. In every ten minutes, one Kenyan needs blood in this country. A man can donate blood after every three months and a woman can donate blood after every four months. It is a fact that after 120 days, our blood gets spoilt and new blood is required. Like the Mover of the Motion has just said, we collect less than 100,000 units of blood every year and we need more than 500,000 units of blood. That says that we have a shortage of blood. Often, if a hospital were to give blood to your patient, they will ask you to bring other people who can donate blood so that they can give the blood to your patient. Otherwise, you would have to procure the blood with money. What if the relatives of the patient do not have the money to pay for blood? We need to get over this. We need to establish in every constituency a blood donation centre. We need devolution to work. What The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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