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    "id": 1084164,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1084164/?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": "The second one is coordinated public participation in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of these policies. Three, is empowerment and capacity building as a means of facilitating access to health services. Four, is transparency and accountability elements. I have talked about the role of the national Government on technical resource provision and structures, qualifications of persons, standards of service, reporting tools, monitoring and evaluation, technical assistance that may be required from time to time, curriculum and training modules for the training of community health workers that would be coordinated nationally at the county level and mobilizing of the resources and provision of adequate resources to meet these needs at the village level. Finally, to put in place mechanisms to facilitate access to timely community health services by residents within the respective county. Madam Temporary Speaker, the way I see it, we must continue and endeavor to build the conduct of capacity building, financing of resources and establish structures. To enable us to do this, there is need to establish the community health services director at the community level, to coordinate these services and ensure that they reach to every single village. This is because he or she is best suited to know the county, villages and map them well. He or she is able to do the normal budgeting and financing exercise to meet the already developed and required needs for that community. If time permitted, I would have said more. However, for now, it suffices to say that this is the single most piece of legislation that will go a long way to address the gaps that we see. For example, the pandemic can be easily handled, detected and tested at the village level. Therefore, we will reduce the amount of panic that is all over the place. People are panicking at the moment. Simple basic measures of social distancing, wearing of masks, drinking warm water to clear the throat and washing hands are simple basic elements. They should be taken to the village level to reduce the intensity and pervasion of any pandemic that may come up unexpectedly in the community. It can be localized around that region and contact tracing can reach the target groups within a given time."
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