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    "id": 1084153,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1084153/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "Many of the nutritional disturbances that we have at the community level are preventable conditions. For instance, simple basic education on what kind of foods we should eat is balancing proteins, carbohydrates and vitamins is such elementary knowledge that will save many mothers from giving birth to children who are malnourished and prone to infections particularly, infectious diseases that may harm and create high child mortality at birth. In the first instance, we want to ensure the mother is safe in carrying the pregnancy to full term. Secondly, we want to ensure the baby the mother is carrying is also safe. At the end, we want to ensure both mother and child survive this physiological phenomenon of bringing forth a new arrival to the community. Therefore, they need assistance and accessibility to health facilities that will help them achieve that noble objective. Unless you have a robust, well-coordinated, furnished and resourced centres and village activities, I am afraid our mortality and morbidity rates will continue to rise. We will then be unable to achieve our health index that we have started so well at the beginning, that we want to give health as a right to all our individuals at the community level. Madam Temporary Speaker, these are basics in our Constitution. Therefore, this is an enabling Act of Parliament christened as community health service which over- arches to reach the most remote and basic village in out society to access health. That is one of the elements we can achieve. The second element is that the disease surveillance will be very much cherished. We should be able to pick out certain basic diseases that are preventable, but cause a high morbidity and morality in our society. Therefore, we have a surveillance system that is in place, a health worker can pick up basic health defects that can be attended to promptly without giving much thought. That will save the baby, mother, father and the community, whatever elements they may be suffering from. Third, at that level, we should be able to provide expertise and skills at various levels. Whether it is a social a worker volunteer, they will have basic skills to handle certain matters within the professional competence bequeathed to them at that moment."
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