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    "id": 1193989,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof). Kamar",
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        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "and only three beds in the maternity wing. It does not help us and does not move us forward. I am delighted that Sen. Kibwana quickly brought this forward so that we use it as the first dialogue between ourselves and our Council of Governors (CoG). I wish the Committee on Health can pick on this one and discuss it further. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale said it can be developed into law at a certain point. It is time we discussed other things including maternity leave and how long it should be. Mothers are not giving birth to children just for themselves. They are giving back to Kenyans and we must take care of mothers knowing that they are the ones raising members of our society. It is important that we support and take care of mothers. We should look at the law in the near future in order to see how we can make it easier, simpler and more comfortable for mothers to not only deliver but to also raise their children in a good environment, instead of rushing a mother to go back to work after 60 calendar days. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we had passed another law in the 10th Parliament that there needs to be a crèche in every Government office. How many offices have those crèches? If you get a baby, it is up to you because you got a baby. We know that when it comes to other development agendas like demography, we will tell ourselves that we need more Kenyans. These mothers are important and we need to take care of them, more so, the victims of child loss. I thank Sen. Kibwana and support the Motion."
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