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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emurua Dikirr, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Johana Kipyegon",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity to ventilate into this matter, which is of great national importance. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I know the pain the parents of the young ones in school are going through. First, before I say anything, I would like to condole with those who have lost their loved ones and give them a word of encouragement. Those who are concerned should take serious steps and ensure this does not happen again in this country. There may be many reasons why we have such kinds of diseases in our schools. The most important thing is to have a health facility in every school. The schools we went to had serious dispensaries, doctors and nurses. So, if there was a disease, it was detected immediately. I remember the school I went to, Maseno High School, once had a very serious outbreak of malaria. At some point, we even lost a student. After the incident, the school introduced a very serious dispensary which was staffed with a doctor and nurse to take care of any disease that came up in the school. Having more than three deaths in a school is a very dangerous phenomenon. I think the contributor to that situation is either contaminated water or un-cooked food. I remember one time we woke up in the morning only to realise that the tea we had taken in school had some dead rats in it. So, you can imagine what those students are going through. We need to have very serious health personnel to be always checking the food that the children are served in schools. It should be like what the Government does when it sends public health officers to inspect food that is sold in butcheries and hotels. We should have the same kind of personnel inspecting food that is cooked in schools. When you cook food for a large number of students, sometimes you overlook other things. You may end up cooking rats, cockroaches and some other stuff that I do not want to mention. We must put in place very serious measures to ensure that the food that the students eat in school is properly inspected. Even the cooks employed by schools should have undergone rigorous training on matters food and cooking. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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