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    "id": 1163709,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1163709/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "The third point is on how to create homecare services, especially in health. Some of these old people cannot use motorbikes. You will find an old person travelling all the way from Kilibwoni and wants to travel to Kapsabet to access medical care which is kilometers away yet they are old, tired and sick. The county governments should enhance a vibrant homecare services. I do not think it is expensive. For example, we have 30 Wards in Nandi County. It will be very cheap if we recruit at least two nurses to do homecare and palliative care to the terminally ill patients. The nurses would check if the elderly are diabetic, have pressure, Cancer or any other form of diseases. They can get a motorbike and hire two nurses per ward. If that happened, Nandi County alone would employ over 60 nurses to take care of the elderly. Those motorbikes will ensure that they go to homes and visit those in homecare. They will also assist in recovery. Mr. Temporary Speaker, diseases are not the only things that kill the elderly. It is about how they are being taken care of. Some of them die because of hunger and not because that they are sick as such. We must have a vibrant homecare process. The fifth point is to ensure that there is access in terms of registration. This is where the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics comes in. The population census of Kenya was done in 2019. The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics should tell us the updated figures. Why would old people complain of cash transfer programmes yet the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics has the statistics? We need to encourage government agencies to share information. If the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government wants information about the old people in the Republic, they should get. I have seen the demographics out there that has been done and it is very easy. When you go to the village, even in Wajir County, the wazee will ask you how they can register. The National Government have the statistics through the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics? They can even tell which part of Laikipia you come from. If it is Marmanet or somewhere else. They can tell how many people there are in any"
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