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    "id": 1104385,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1104385/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13166,
        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
        "slug": "david-ole-sankok"
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    "content": "fail because of the overdose of some of these chemicals that are used in lightening their skins. The skins are lightened by drugs that destroy melanin. For the cosmetics to stick in one’s body, one needs a sticker. Most of the time, these stickers are heavy metals like lead and mercury. If you use them in your lipsticks, you might end up transferring the same mercury and other poisonous chemicals to your spouses. Hon. (Dr.) Pukose talked about maturity level 3 that enables us to have products that we can sell beyond our borders. Currently, it is only South Africa and Ghana whose drugs and pharmaceutical products are at maturity level 3. It means they can sell and get foreign exchange beyond their borders. However, in our case, we can only produce and use them within our borders. We cannot sell them to other countries because we are not regulating them. This authority will also regulate and ensure that only prescribed medicines are sold. In Kenya, you can buy antibiotics over the counter. If you go to other countries, you must have a registered doctor’s prescription. It is so that people do not use medicine that will end up making them resistant, or even getting side effects in their bodies. Examples of those antibiotics are penicillin and cephalosporins like cefaclor. However, the common citizens do not understand that these two antibiotics have a common thing called beta-lactam ring which is the cause of resistance from bacteria that produces beta-lactamase that breaks down the ring. So, you end up having cross- resistance. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to conclude because I can see my time is up. I would like to implore Hon. (Dr.) Pukose to allow us to bring an amendment to include regulation of assistive devices used by persons with disabilities (PWDs). I have a Bill in this House that will enable the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to cover the provision of assistive devices to PWDs. These assistive devices for PWDs like crutches, callipers, wheelchairs and hearing aids are prescription equipment. What I use may not be used by Hon. Dennitah. If you end up giving a wheelchair to somebody who is able to use crutches, he or she will end up becoming more disabled because of the dormancy that comes with a wheelchair. Otherwise, he or she would have exercised using crutches running up and down. I would also like to implore Hon. (Dr.) Pukose…"
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