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    "content": "Today, if you visit any normal family, you will find a lot of generic and processed foodstuffs served during breakfast. This exposes us to these incurable diseases. Cancer has been a problem. In many homesteads in our constituencies, people are facing a challenge in cancer treatment. It is very expensive to treat cancer. Through your indulgence, on the clinical testing conducted, I want to concur that Uasin Gishu was just part of the population. If you go through the system and do the same countrywide, you will get very many cancer cases. In Uasin Gishu, the rising cases of cancer are probably caused by fertilizers. In some areas, there are chemicals that were not properly disposed of, like asbestos in North Eastern, and water contamination in other areas. These end up causing health problems to people because chemicals are key contributors to cancer. I want to echo what Hon. Fatuma said. We need to prevent this disease before we start treating it. The earlier we prevent it, the better for us. I also want to reiterate that insurance companies have also been part of the problem. They cannot be selective on the diseases to cover, especially when they know that this is a terminal disease. They claim that they cannot cover it because the cost of treatment would be more. Why am I paying for an insurance? Diseases like cancer do not show early symptoms. We have lost many people, including Members of Parliament. My former Member of Parliament, the late Hon. Grace Kipchoim, was a cancer patient. May her soul rest in peace. We have lost many people leaving their families in dire problems and poverty. At the end of the day, we use a lot of money to treat these patients. When they die, their families end up poor because they exhausted most of the resources they had. As the Government and Parliament, we need to sit and correct where we have gone wrong. We must have affordable ways of treating cancer, and mostly preventing it. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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