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    "id": 116288,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kamama",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for High Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Asman Abongutum Kamama",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, first, I rise to support this Motion and I wish to thank Eng. Gumbo for bringing this very important Motion in our medical practice. First, I want to say that the alternative medicine is used as first aid in this Continent by most Africans. In most African communities before they take their children to hospital, they used to administer herbal medicine on their children or to the old people and then take them to hospital. So, it is used as First Aid. In most places, especially in the far flank areas where the pastoral people are found, this alternative medicine is very popular. You would find them very popular in places where there are no dispensaries. This is because you will go to some locations in these places where there is no single dispensary. So, the recourse is actually the alternative medicine. Herbal or alternative medicine is part of the African indigenous knowledge which has not been fully exploited by our professionals or by the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation. So, we need to take an audit of what we have in terms of African indigenous knowledge with more specific reference to herbal and traditional medicine. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you talk to urban people in this country, most of them will tell you that herbal medicine is primitive and is associated with witchcraft and that kind of stuff."
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