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    "id": 1272634,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1272634/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyeri Town, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Duncan Mathenge",
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    "content": "Facilitated financial access for patients with cancer will increasingly, and most likely, lead to earlier diagnosis and better outcomes. It will reduce cost as opposed to the current state where up to 70 per cent of cases access treatment late, requiring more elaborate investigations and much more expensive treatment options with poorer outcomes. A very high percentage of cervical cancer patients - I hope the honourable ladies of this House are listening to these statistics - referred to radiotherapy, do not access the treatment because they cannot afford it. Even those who access the treatment do not undergo the entire treatment protocol because they cannot finance it. Multiple investigations, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are the main components of direct costs for cancer patients. Cancer causes a heavy economic burden with adverse social implications beyond the death of cancer victims. Studies have demonstrated that orphans of cancer patients have a higher under-five year mortality rate in this country than other children. This has a considerable impact on communities. More broadly, the Cancer Fund will be an appropriate response to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No.3, whose target is reducing premature mortality from non-communicable diseases such as cancer by one-third by 2030. In the year 2010, our then health Minister and current Kisumu Governor, Hon. Anyang Nyong’o, disclosed to the nation that he had prostate cancer and sought treatment in California, USA, at the Hellen Diller Family Comprehensive Care Centre, and was treated by radiation. A year later in 2011, Hon. Beth Mugo, the then Minister for Public Health and Sanitation, similarly revealed to the nation she had breast cancer and was treated in the USA, requiring both surgery and radiation. 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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