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    "id": 1098980,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13188,
        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "that we must look for ways and means of legislating so that cancer patients especially those who wear colostomy bags are helped. Some of these patients and I was able to interact with one. He told me that it is unfortunate that he changes the colostomy bags maybe in a day even three or four times. If they are not changed, you can imagine what goes on. When it comes to excretion, it is normal. If you do not excrete, it means there is something wrong with you. Madam Temporary Speaker, there are organs of the body that actually do this function. The lungs, skin and colon are very important in excretion. If someone is not able to excrete the waste matter, it means that it goes back to his body. He is not even comfortable then he will be diseased. This is something we can rectify. When it comes to the use of colostomy bags, they should not be ridiculed. They need to be understood. There is need for awareness about even the use of colostomy bags. Even in county governments, the county executives should ensure that even in their budgets, they do not only have money set aside for medical equipment without touching the issue of cancer. Madam Temporary Speaker, people with cancer are never followed. Nobody ever makes a follow-up to see how they are getting on. Even the active cancer patients, no one makes a follow up. However, when somebody dies, you will just hear that he fought a good fight. He was brave. No one wants to be brave and no one wants to fight a fight. There is no fight. When you are in the land of the living you behave as the living. There is need for intervention so that those who use colostomy bags are helped during their time in life. They have a right to health. When you talk about issues of health, it touches on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 3 that talks about good health. We cannot talk about Vision 2030 and health if we are forgetting a big chunk of people that have cancer. Madam Temporary Speaker, my humble request as I move this Motion is that county governments should implement the Constitution requirement of ensuring that everyone is health because health is a mandatory requirement. They ensure also that palliative care is given. They even ensure that there is a register for those who have cancer. I want to say on the Floor of this House that it is very unfortunate. When it comes to active cancer patients and cancer survivors, there are so many Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) that deal with cancer. Some of them are even briefcase NGOs. However, if you are a real cancer patient and you go to them, they will not help you. If you want chemotherapy, they will not help you. However, they will earn a lot of money. Some of them are even donor-funded and they get a lot of money. When it comes to supporting the real cancer patient who needs to be supported, they do not do so. Madam Temporary Speaker, I know some Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) wait even for someone to die. They say that this is a foundation in honour of so and so who had cancer. All that, but your family does not benefit. The money goes to them. It is time NGOs stopped being canning and stop gambling with the lives of people. We should never say when someone has died of cancer that she fought a good fight or she really braved. We need to intervene at the time when somebody is alive and"
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