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    "id": 1101719,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1101719/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13188,
        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
        "slug": "getrude-musuruve-inimah"
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    "content": "walk with colostomy bags wherever they go because part of their intestines have been cut off. We know very well the role that the intestines play in our bodies. Every day when we wake up, some people take a cup of tea and others fruits and all that. We need to eat for our bodies to remain healthy. Even as our bodies remain healthy, there are some waste that need to be excreted for a balanced digestive system. However, those people who have colostrum cancer, some of them their intestines have been cut off. They are not even able to do the normal things that everybody else does. Madam Temporary Speaker, they must walk with their colostomy bags. When you are talking of colostomy bags, they are damn expensive. They are way out of the reach of the common person. As I stand here as a cancer survivor, I am speaking about the common person; the mwananchi who is really suffering and does not know what to do. Some of these survivors who had colon cancer need to keep changing their colostomy bags. When it comes to real-time situation after eating after some hours in a day or two days, the body has to excrete the waste. If the body does not do that, it becomes fatigued. The waste also goes to other parts of the body instead of being excreted. People get diseases and all that. I want us to feel the plight of these cancer patients who are suffering and have no way out. Madam Temporary Speaker, when it comes to provision of these bags, nobody comes in to aid those cancer patients who are always walking around with their bags. There is need for Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to also intervene and waive the taxes that come along with health devices such as colostomy bags. They should not be taxed at all. Even for prostatitis, they should not be taxed so that they are affordable to the common man. It is unfortunate that sometimes we do not remember the declarations that Kenya signed like the Abuja Declaration. That 15 per cent of money should go to health. Sometimes we forget these declarations. I am speaking about an issue that can affect everyone. Everyone is a candidate of cancer. Nobody can say that someone was too careless with his life and he got cancer. I am talking about a Motion that is going to help you, me and all Kenyans. Millions of Kenyans are suffering. Madam Temporary Speaker, when it comes to palliative drugs, they are also very expensive. Sometimes you will find that cancer patients want the drugs but they are not able to access the drugs because they are so expensive. Palliative drugs should be exempted from tax 100 per cent. Apart from that, they should be available in hospitals. Sometimes you find cancer patients like someone has colon cancer and all the pains. However, they do not have the palliative drugs. There is need for the county governments to ensure that these drugs are absolutely free so that we defend our constitutional requirement. Article 43 demands that everyone has a right to the highest standards of health. We must do something as a Senate. Madam Temporary Speaker, as I speak here, I feel the pain of those cancer patients who are permanently walking with colostomy bags. Many people walk with these colostomy bags but nobody has aired this issue. Even Napoleon Bonaparte himself was a user of colostomy bag. He died of stomach cancer. I am speaking about an issue"
}