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    "speaker_name": "Hon Anthony Oluoch (",
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    "content": "healthcare. It also goes on to underscore the question of access to emergency care and access to social security. Emergency care can be defined in different ways. However, if I look at it in the context of informal settlements, such as Mathare and Mukuru, you will find that the common person in my constituency does not have access to ambulance services that can quickly rush them to hospital during emergencies. Community health workers live with these people as neighbours. They offer emergency health care to the extent that they are able to realise when there is an emergency of a person who is a neighbour, look for a vehicle, a motorcycle or a bicycle and rush them either to the dispensary or to the hospital. The other issue which this Bill happily looks at is the question of the community health workers training. It talks about how to train them to perform their roles both clinical and psychosocial. Therefore, the enactment of this Bill will bring a crucial component that is missing and fill a gap that will be very important to deal with in terms of the UHC. Community health workers also guide the community on health improvement and disease prevention in terms of educating people at the local level, make visitations to homes, initiate dialogue with household members, determine the health situation and deliver key health messages and undertake necessary action. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we should ask ourselves who a community health worker is. This is a member of a community who has been chosen by the community, meaning that we already have acceptability and it is a person who is known. In terms of offering community health at the local level, the persons that you are offering this psychosocial or clinical support outside the hospital need someone they can fully trust. These are people who are identified by the community as they live with them. These are people who have been chosen by the community or organisations to provide health and medical care within the community and are capable of providing preventive, promotional and rehabilitation care to that community. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I continue to underscore the community health workers, some of the benefits is to gain support from other organisations serving the community through developing trust in terms of interpersonal relations and deliver services that are appropriate, based on a language that the people at the local level encounter. Based on this and given that our universal healthcare is about to take off, it is important that this complimentary role and the gap that will be filled by he community health workers would be fast-tracked, implemented and a budgetary framework put in place so that we can mobilise resources from the national Government, county governments and international organisations. These people need to come out of the position where they volunteer to work, are unrecognised and nobody really looks at the importance of the things they do. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to support and hope that Members in this House will rise to the occasion and support the Bill by the Member for Ndhiwa, Hon. Martin Owino. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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