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    "id": 1081731,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1081731/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Makali Mulu",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "The HIV has complicated matters. As the Leader of the Majority Party said, people are scared to donate blood because some are not sure of their status and do not want their status to be confirmed. The assumption is that anytime you go there and you are told your blood is not good for a patient, then automatically the conclusion is that you are HIV positive. These are the challenges we are facing as a country. We need to get enough blood in our reserves and as a result, when one is donating, it will be for purposes of replacing what was used by another patient after it went through all the necessary testing. Even if it is not used, you will get to know why it was not used because your patient would have been given blood. That is why the Committee needs to push this matter very hard. As a House, we need to take it as our responsibility and get this Bill through the process. Hon. Speaker, I am happy you chair the House Business Committee and everybody appreciates the importance of this Bill. It is important that once we go through the Second Reading, it is slotted for the Committee of the whole House and the Third Reading, so that it becomes an Act of Parliament. Then we can get this process cleared and our people can start benefitting."
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