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    "id": 1084193,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "People who serve in Level 1 and 2 hospitals, as Sen. (Dr.) Zani will confirm, are the first line of defence in provision of health services before lab technicians, qualified nurses and doctors come in. They are the people on the first line of defence who provide the quickest response to our people on the ground. Most of the people who brought us to this House reside in the countryside. The fact that we will recognise this calibre of people who do work for free is commendable. If you go to most of the counties, community health volunteers work for free. We have been calling them community health workers, but the term has now changed to community health volunteers. When you talk to people at the grassroots, these are the people they recognise because they always run to them when they have health issues. Therefore, it is good and commendable that we are now coming up with a law that will incorporate these people and have them recognised by an Act of Parliament. It is good that we will no longer refer to them as workers. Last time I started on the Floor of this House that some of the community health volunteers are people who have retired but they are not there for money. When you say that they should be remunerated by being given a salary and bring in the SRC or public service boards, you are likely to lock out most of them, yet they are the engines in terms of provision of community health services. It is good that, that has been taken care of in this Bill and it will not be a matter for us to belabour any more. I am also happy that there is a clear structure on how these people will be dealt with at the community level. Initially, we had concerns with the CECMs in charge of"
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