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    "id": 1103505,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "content": "A time has come in this nation when we must change policy to have an established a fund or an entity that supports all Kenyans. We should not pretend that this kinds of ailments, specifically cancer that affects only the rich. We who are in this House, we who are in high echelons in public service have insurances. Unfortunately, when you look at yourself stationed high up in public service, you seem to forget that majority of Kenyans cannot afford insurance. When we look around for a champion for Kenyans; a person who will speak for people who are voiceless or persons who will speak for sufferers who undergo this suffering, but do not have a voice in any place where decisions are made, you will find that such champions are few. We are fortunate as a House that we have Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve who is a champion for these people who are suffering. I think we should all join her team of champions so that we can use our platform to bring change. We use this platform to alleviate the plight of those who are victims of cancer. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is good to support victims of cancer by providing these bags and other support. In counties, for instance, Migori County, I am yet to meet in public health facilities any doctor, or any health provider who has knowledge of how to diagnose, treat and manage cancer and how to advise people to access this. I wonder what is happening to my people in Migori County the ones in Kuria East and Kuria West. If I look at the Kurian population in its totality or numbers, it comprises about 300,000 people. That is for Kuria East and Kuria West. If I look at the entire population of Migori County, we are made up of 1.2 million people. We do not have any doctor, medical personnel or facility in our public health providing facilities that is capable of identifying cancer; let alone colon cancer. If we have them, half the time they are not functioning. For a place like Migori County or the neighbouring counties like Homa Bay County and Kisii County has something. Most of us continue raiding the physical space, the facilities and human resource that Kisii County has for such treatment because we do not have this. There is need for champions beyond here, particularly in the Executive to take their time and find how chronic diseases treated in public hospitals in counties. Some people may say that there is National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) so you can get NHIF to go to private hospital. Even the private practitioners in Migori County do not have the expertise. We cannot find expertise or people who may be called physicians. If you ask me how many physicians are in Migori County, I will tell you that they are less than three. My father is elderly and he has to visit physicians most of the times. When we look around for physicians who may attend for his ailments, we find them in Kisumu County. Since he is an elderly person and he has to be taken to Kisumu in a comfortable vehicle, I have to cause my vehicle to take him to Kisumu. I am giving myself as an example of people who have elderly parents. I am talking here well aware of the fact that I am a privileged person. How about Atieno in Kanyamkago and Anyango in Uriri and Boke in Kuria who do not share the same"
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