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    "id": 1143103,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mohamed Mohamud",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohamud Sheikh Mohammed",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for your kindness and generosity for allowing me to rush to my microphone. I rise to support this very invaluable Bill. I call it invaluable because we cannot put it to scale the value it is going to add to the health care workers. I speak from a point of knowledge. I have been in the health profession for the last 33 years. This Bill is therefore, timely, important and will add value to our society. We also have to know that the community healthcare workers are the backbone of our society. They are the ones who drive the health of our society in the far flung rural village. It is important and we must acknowledge that these health care workers do not have a union, a council and representatives to voice their words into practicality. This Bill gives them the opportunity to air their voices, so that they can describe the terrain they go through in their service. Our communities in the village have the ears of the community healthcare workers. Also, the community health workers have the ears of the community. They are informed of the actual medical conditions that are there. If a mother is in labour at the wee hours of the night, doctors may not be there to help them. The community healthcare workers are the ones who will help because they live within the village, within the periphery and precincts of where things happen. Because of that, the community healthcare workers provide the essentials of medicine. I will use the term essentials of medicine simply because the practise of medicine is done by those on the higher level. When I use the term medicine, some people are a bit territorial. They want to claim medicine is for particular cadres. However, I want to say that those who dispense the services provided in the rural villages are those that actually practise the actual medicine. Therefore, recognition of the community healthcare workers is a plus. It will give them the opportunity to prosper in their careers, to prosper with their salary and remuneration packages, and in giving them that psychological support that they need as valid members of the health profession. They can only be valid in the community once they are recognised at the national level in terms of advocacy, boards that can serve them with all the requirements that they need. Let me tell you why these people are very important. From my very own family, my grandfather, the late Mzee Omar, was a community traditional health worker. He was a very bright The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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