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    "content": "encouraged society to take care of that vulnerable segment of society called “children”. Today, every District Hospital has a Paediatric Wing. Therefore, if we are to make this policy a reality in Kenya, we need to set up specialised departments to take care of the medical needs of old people. Care of the old people is something that is completely lacking in Kenya. Today, only wealthy Kenyans are able to get specialised care for some of their medical needs through nursing undertaken by private practitioners, who visit their homes to inject them with insulin, do some physiotherapy on them, administer on them certain necessary drugs, make sure that they take their vitamins, or take care of them when they become forgetful about taking their medication. For the aged people in the villages we come from, there is no such arrangement. That is why I am specifically proposing, in order for this policy to benefit the people who elected us to this House, and to whom we go for blessings when we seek electoral offices, that we should create special wings for the elderly people in every District Hospital, just like we have Paediatric Wings.This is one very practical way to ensure that the Policy gets to the people who need it most. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in terms of social welfare programmes, I also see a paragraph in this Policy Paper that has mentioned old people. But, again, there is no practical thing that has been put down in order for this policy to make sense to the people in the village from my constituency in Garsen. An ordinary Pokomo, Orma or Wardei man from my constituency would graduate into adulthood and then into the council of elders. The only thing they would be doing is to decide on cases of social nature that are brought to them or to their attention when they sit as the GASA or other elders to determine social issues. However, there is nothing you can say is a deliberate Government programme to engage the old people. There is no particular suggestion under the social welfare programmes that the Ministry has come up with. I suggest that in terms of making this policy a reality on the ground, I propose that in every constituency, we should have not only district hospitals or constituency based healthcare but also an old persons’ home. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I used to see some old persons’ homes ama"
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