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    "content": "another 16,000 in the private sector. We need double that number to carry out our mandate. We need to consider funding the public health sector more. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as far as the number of staff we have posted to Turkana South District is concerned, we posted six nurses, seven public health officers, two laboratory technicians and, three clinical officers. In Turkana Central District we have four Government nurses, 16 public health officers and 11 community health workers. This epidemic has been moving from one district to another. It started somewhere in Isiolo and then moved to Laisamis. Now, it has moved to Turkana. We have, however, worked extremely hard to ensure that we have been able to control the spread of cholera in other districts. The most critical issues that we have are those of finances and human resource. As far as surveillance is concerned, we are doing it in all districts. We have very well trained teams which are doing the surveillance. I have already indicated to hon. Members that without safe water, even if we get all the resources that we want, we will not be able to prevent an outbreak of Cholera. This is really a water borne disease and yet we have had a shortage of water. We have had a long spell of drought and this has exposed our people to this disease. Nevertheless, we have tried to control cholera in the 50 districts. In fact, 34 districts are now free of this disease. We are now focusing on Turkana with a multi-sectoral approach. The Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security chaired one of our meetings and we are now mobilizing the Army, the Red Cross and others to ensure that the people of Turkana get the actual treatment that they deserve."
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