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    "speaker_name": "Wajir South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mohamed Mohamud",
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        "legal_name": "Mohamud Sheikh Mohammed",
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    "content": "orthopaedic surgeon. He used to do all the works that were required in the rural village. My mother was one of the best traditional physiotherapists during the time she lived in the village. She used to provide services to people who were ill in bed and give them that support that they needed when doctors and the current community health workers were not there. So, traditional community healthcare workers also need to be recognised. That is the point I would want to add to Dr. Owing’s proposal on this Bill. Traditional healthcare or community workers are also valuable people. Not necessarily those who came through formal education to become community health care workers. When it comes to advocacy, we always lag behind when some voices are not at the table where things are discussed and decided. That is why community healthcare worker’s situations are lagging behind. I am a particular beneficiary of the community health care workers. The entire immunisation that was given to us in our childhood was provided by community healthcare workers. Most of them were volunteers and were unpaid. Some of them were not formally educated, but they had the grasp of it. In one chapter in my book: ‘Transforming Public Health inDeveloping Countries’, community healthcare workers stand out. They stand out simply because of the works they have done in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Ghana. These are the places I have focused on in the book. Before the current crisis in the Ethiopia, child mortality had improved so much that we thought they were in the first world. This was because of community healthcare workers. That bring me back to what I said earlier that community healthcare workers are the backbone of the society. Without dwelling longer on this advocacy of providing a board and support for the community healthcare workers, I want to say that Dr. Owino must be congratulated for pushing our Committee, the Departmental Committee on Health, which I am a Member, to ensure this Bill is discussed, taken through the public participation it deserves, gone through the process that is required in the Ccommittee until we came to the professional decision of supporting it. We, as professionals in the healthcare service have said that this Bill is timely. The community healthcare workers take care of our Level 1 to Level 3 hospitals and public health within the community. They are the guardians of our society’s’ health. Given that they are the guardians, it is imperative upon us to support anything that is going to support them, both professionally and in the journey towards progress in their career. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support this Bill and ask the rest of my colleagues to support it given that it has come through the minds and brighter brains of the professionals in the Departmental Committee on Health."
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