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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker for granting me this opportunity to give my contribution also on this important Bill by our colleague Sen. (Dr.) Ali whom I want to congratulate. Sen. (Dr.) Ali has been passionate in terms of matters health. He has served as a Member of our Committee on Health for quite a long time. You know the battles that have been there and how he has been involved in trying to bring reform even within that particular committee. That is trying to always remind them of the singular most important duty that they have to the republic. This is in line with his philosophy. This is classic Sen. (Dr.) Ali always trying to look at things on how we improve on the welfare and overall health care management system in our republic. Madam Temporary Speaker, many occasions when you get to speak as leaders, people will consider it to be wining. On many occasions during Statement hour or speaking to Motions, people get to follow us and watch and say, when leaders whine, what are the rest of us supposed to do with respect to the challenges that we face as a republic? This is one of the things that citizens expect of us. That in one way or the other, we will make our contribution in trying to fix the challenges and problems that exist in our country. Healthcare is a big issue. In fact, I had mentioned this earlier today in the afternoon that outside of public debt and unemployment, I cannot think of any more pressing crisis in this country other than the health sector. Madam Temporary Speaker, when you look at the challenges of your constituents and it is one of the avenues that are used to measure what challenges and needs are pressing the people that I represent in this constituency more. You will realise that out of perhaps ten requests that you get for need for assistance out of people reaching out to you, nine will be actually health related. People are trying to say please assist with this regard. We have a sick patient who we are unable to pay for and those kind of things. All this is testament to a failed public health system in our republic. It is unfortunate because we are in an election year. You would expect that like good adults in a room, we will sit down, stop the noise, sloganeering and trying to appear saintly than the others. Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not think and this is very clear on my mind that there is no leader currently amongst all those who are seeking be President who can have the moral authority to point at the other and claim innocence in the challenges that are bedevilling our nation. In one way or the other, they have all had their own contribution. They have failed in this regard or the other. They have had opportunity to serve us in different capacities. Therefore, you wold expect that at this particular time, we would be trying to look into solutions such as what is being proposed in this Bill. You would expect what is the health policy or proposition that a particular candidate is giving to the republic. Madam Temporary Speaker, you do know that from 2017, this current administration gave out a promise of the Big Four Agenda. It is unfortunate because we lost to focus on other nuances that have completely not assisted anyone and lost track of a very important exercise. That was in the name of focusing on one of the Big Four Agendas which was Universal Health Coverage (UHC). If we had executed that program successfully, we would have ensured that the 47 million of us despite the cost that will have been needed, at least will have the"
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