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    "id": 1081769,
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    "speaker_name": "Endebess, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "experienced because they live in a war zone. They have developed a situation whereby they have well organised ways of collecting blood and how to make it reach various centres. Essentially, if you have a well-organised regional blood transfusion centre, it should have its own vehicles. Hospitals can make their requisitions to the regional blood transfusion centres. Once a hospital has made its requisition, the regional centre should be able to package what you need and send a vehicle to bring it to you. I heard the honourable Member, the good professor, saying that when you donate blood, you get worried about people saying that this person has, say, HIV, Hepatitis and all those things. That should not worry you. When you donate blood, you are allowed not to disclose who you are. We want to have more people donating blood. Institutions like Parliament should have a day for blood donation. For example, the National Blood Transfusion Service can come and set camp here in Parliament so that Members can walk there to donate blood. We can have the camp at the car park. We shall be setting a good example to the rest of Kenyans. An adult male can donate blood every three months while an adult woman can donate every four months. This is because women have other cycles like menstrual periods and all those other things. That is why they have a longer waiting period before they can donate blood. The National Blood Transfusion Service, through this Bill, is the way to go for us. We should look at other areas which we can also support like the Kenya Food and Drugs Authority. We can also establish a national drugs authority that can look at other areas in as far as medicine is concerned. With those few remarks, I support."
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