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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Baya",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis S. K. Baya",
        "slug": "francis-baya"
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, many communities that I have been to use traditional or herbal medicine. They are many because during my past career, I worked in seven provinces out of the eight, and I stayed long enough to know the practices of the resident communities. The majority of them use traditional medicine and they have been very effective. For instance, in Coast Province, particularly the district where I was born and brought up, you will find less diseases like epilepsy and asthma because at a young age we believe, and we have seen it practically, that these diseases, which are declared incurable by modern medicine, can actually be cured. As hon. Dr. Khalwale rightly pointed out, 80 per cent of circumcision is done traditionally. In my place, it is 90 per cent; because of the neglect of traditional, or herbal medicine practitioners - the neglect that it has been given by those who are supposed to manage healthcare services, that is the Ministry of Health - they use equipment that once in a while cause infection. I believe that with the introduction of a policy which will give direction, and introduce a legal framework, we should be able to advise them on what type of instruments to use, and how they can clean them after they have performed one circumcision. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know it will be difficult, even after introducing a law to provide for intellectual property rights, particularly for traditional medicines. This is so because, as the title indicates, it is traditional. These are medicines that have been inherited over the years but, somehow, some of these practices can be"
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