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    "id": 1084854,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "practice as provided for in the regulations. So, that already covers everyone who deserves blood and he or she will get it anyway. If it is put in the Constitution, nobody will deny it. However, this amendment is basically recognising that a contributor should have priority over a non-contributor everything else being equal. So, during your healthy days, you will be encouraged to donate blood and when you need it the most, it will be there. What you find right now is that you continue donating blood, but on the day that you have an accident, you are told that they do not have blood yet it is available, and you have to look for alternatives. Some people then say: “Why should I donate blood when I will not get it?” However, by putting it this way, people who have already donated blood and are registered and are seen as regular donors, will also have priority when they need it most. It will sensitise people to actually donate blood into the blood bank in expectation that at one point in future, they might need it. That is a very good thing to encourage and sensitise people on so that we do not have a situation where people are holding back and saying: “Why should I donate yet when I need it, it will be demanded that I bring relatives to donate blood?” It does not stop the person who deserves it, but due to some medical issues he or she cannot donate or may have not donated because he is compromised and all that, from accessing the blood."
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