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    "id": 1081799,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mvita, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Abdullswamad Nassir",
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        "legal_name": "Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir",
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    "content": "been donated by someone else who comes from a very vast and different background could save my life tomorrow. This is a culture that we need to inculcate in our people. We need to tell our people and show them what it means to have that level of humanity. As much as we are talking and discouraging discrimination based on matters nepotism and different religious beliefs, as much as every single day we talk about not having that notion that a tribe is more superior to another tribe, we equally need to tell Kenyans out there that your blood will be able to save someone as much as someone else’s blood will be able to save you. The Red Cross in Mombasa does about 6,000 pints annually. Red Spash does about 5,000 pints annually. This is about 11,000 pints out of the 160,000 that is collected. I am honoured and blessed once again to be part and parcel of an organisation that looks at me and I look at them without regard to the title that I hold when I represent them in the National Assembly. We look at it in terms of humanity. Close to 10 per cent of the country’s blood is actually done by organisations that I am associated with. So, I congratulate the Red Cross team in Mombasa and the Red Splash team too. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, just to give you and other Kenyans what can be done, the Red Splash introduced a phone app which can be downloaded. I recommend to everyone who is listening right now to download this particular app. Once you download it, you can give your details as a donor. So, it gives you reminders. Not only that, but it will give you an alert in the event there is an accident or there is someone in a certain hospital who needs blood. It will give you an alert that you are closest to a certain person and urge you to please go and donate blood to that particular person. It even gives you updates on hospitals on a regular basis to advise you on the blood levels in those different hospitals. I intend to take this Bill and have a sitting with the people that I can comfortably say are part of those who made me who I am today, that is, the Red Cross and the Red Splash. We will go through this Bill. By virtue of being a donor and having associated with teams that are very keen in blood donation, I want to go through this Bill and see what amendments we can propose. This is because at the end of the day, they are the wearers of the shoes and they are the ones who know where the shoe pinches most. We no longer have to depend on donors like JICA and USAID. Let it be a situation where we will have blood from one of the very few centres within the country. I wish to support the Bill. I congratulate every blood donor in this country. You have saved a life."
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