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    "id": 1272647,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1272647/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Migori County, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Fatuma Mohammed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I congratulate my sister, Hon. Boss, for her sentiments on the pesticide companies that are selling harmful products to Kenyans. If I may add to that, there is no need to look for cure if there is no protection. First, we need to protect our people before we look for treatment. It makes no sense looking for treatment for what we have caused ourselves. As we all know, cancer has no treatment. It can be prevented, and the treatments that are there are very minimal. As African countries, by the time we realise that we have cancer, in most cases, it is at an advanced stage when you are actually ill - which is mostly stage three and four. Instead of working so much to cure something that the world out there knows very well has minimal success, let us work more on protection and prevention. It is unfortunate that Hon. Boss says that most people who were tested and diagnosed with cancer in her county were all farmers. These are the same people who feed us. Probably, they are the ones who might die first, if I may use that phrase, as used before. If that happens, who will feed us? A generation that is very important to us will be no more. In as much as we look for cure, the health insurance companies also need to be a bit lenient to Kenyans. If you go to take an insurance cover, you are required to fill a form that lists the diseases that you have. You could be walking with cancer and you do not know. If you take that cover and within three months you fall sick, they will not cover you because there is a grace period for covering such treatments. If you have cancer, they will tell you that that is a terminal disease and they would not cover you yet you did not know that you had it. The insurance companies should re-consider this stand. It is something which is beyond us. It is not like the other diseases that can easily be prevented or cured easily."
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