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    "speaker_name": "Shinyalu, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Fred Ikana",
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    "content": "also mourning the life of our teacher, Mrs. Juliana Mujema, who was the boarding mistress at Mukumu Girls. I urge my colleagues here in Parliament to put our heads together and come up with lasting solutions that shall ensure that this crisis of disease outbreaks every now and then that has been bedevilling our schools is addressed once and for all. Of course, I understand that for those who have lost their loved ones, there is very little that can be done. However, as a responsible Government, it is my kind request and expectation that the Government, through the relevant ministries, comes up with at least a way of ameliorating the situation of those families that have lost their loved ones and those that are still nursing hundreds of children who are currently sick. One of the suggested ways that I want to propose to this House to ensure that the lives of our little ones that we put in the care of the various schools is safe, is by ensuring that we fix the issue of procurement. We have a lot of gaps when schools are allowed to freely and randomly procure goods and services that are consumed by our students. We need to ensure that at least in every school, there are set standards for quality assurance of those goods, especially food and water that is consumed by our students. You will also realise that if you make a random visit to some of our schools, you will find there are sick bays. The so-called sick bays in schools are always full. It takes a little bit long for some of our teachers or principals to take action on when to take our ailing students to various hospitals for check-ups and proper medical care. We need to come up with a solution and compel the heads of these various institutions to ensure that whenever students fall sick, they do not wait for too long before either contacting their parents or taking them for proper and comprehensive medical care. To the Ministry of Education, I would want to say, as a representative of the good people of Shinyalu where Mukumu Girls High school is domiciled, I am very disappointed for the long time that the officials took to react to the cries of the parents and the various leaders to take action and save lives. I hope that after this debate, we shall come up with long lasting solutions once and for all to address issues of disease outbreaks in schools. Thank you very much. God bless you."
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