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    "id": 1151673,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Machakos CWR, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms) Joyce Kamene",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to express my views about persons living with disabilities. I would like to start by first acknowledging persons living with disabilities. It is us leaders who ought to have a lot of compassion for people living with disabilities. There are many areas that we have failed as leaders. First, I want to speak about my experience with people living with disabilities. In Machakos County, majority of the people living with disabilities have not accessed the doctor’s assessment to verify their disabilities. Doctors are mainly centered in hospitals that are near towns. It is so hard for them to travel to those facilities. The income of the parents of children living with disabilities makes it almost impossible for them to take their children for assessment. As this Bill is being processed, that is one area that we should ensure is catered for. Every person living with disability should access assessment in the simplest way. The other thing that I have observed is on physiotherapists. Devolution is here, but hospitals in mashinani do not have physiotherapists who should assist children living with disabilities who need to perform some exercises. Therefore, these children continue to get worse because they are not handled in the right way. The other issue is drugs. Some of the persons living with disabilities need drugs. Some of them are on drugs every day yet if you check their family situations, they cannot even afford putting food on the table. Such persons become endangered species. How I wish that at the Committee of the whole House we will ensure that anything that is missing is added so that persons living with disabilities benefit. I beg to support. Thank you for the opportunity."
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