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    "speaker_name": "Kitui West, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Edith Nyenze",
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    "content": "This Motion is very important. Such a Fund should find its way into our Budget. We should budget for it so that we help our people. It is the responsibility of the Government to ensure that we have healthy people and a healthy nation. So, it is very important to have it factored in the Budget. A healthy nation will ensure that we are economically stable and our bodies are healthy and will go a long way in ensuring longevity of our people. This is a very important Motion in the prevention and control of cancer. I also note that the Fund will be very important in educating Kenyans about cancer. Actually, it should be declared a national health disaster. My colleagues can bear me witness that it is one of the diseases which takes a lot of money and also affects very poor people who cannot even afford its treatment. Therefore, such a Fund would also come up with preventive measures and create awareness on how this disease can be controlled and managed. If it is true that some pesticides, chemicals, cosmetics and medicines imported from other countries find their way into our country and cause cancer. What is the Government doing about it? Where is the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS)? Why do they not prevent such products from foreign countries which cause diseases from gaining entry into the country? I caution the Government to be very careful. If it is a proven fact that they cause cancer, we should do something to prevent them from getting into our country. Hon. Temporary Speaker, sometimes I ask questions about cancer. They say that cancer is caused by weight gain or excessive weight; they say that cancer is caused by tobacco; that cancer is caused by alcohol, but sometimes I wonder because there are very thin people who do not eat meat but have cancer though they say that meat also causes cancer. You will find an active poor person who does not take meat and does not have excessive weight, and neither takes alcohol nor smokes tobacco has cancer. We should come up with some diagnosis that shows the exact causes of this disease. It is neither a disease for the rich nor for the poor; it is a disease for all. Though they say that weight gain contributes to cancer, I am not saying it does not, but I have seen many people who do not have excessive weight getting cancer. So, we should come up with the real causes of cancer, real preventive measures and create awareness to our people so that we know what to prevent. I am sure this disease has directly or indirectly affected almost every one of us in one way or the other. As I have said, we should declare this disease a national health disaster. Then, the Government should come up with measures of budgeting for this disease. Even Kenyans can contribute to this Fund. Maybe we could have awareness through cancer walks to contribute towards this Fund even if it is on an annual basis. Since all of us are affected, I am sure all Kenyans will be willing to even contribute to this Fund and ensure that this killer and horrifying disease is controlled and prevented. If possible, reduced in a big way. With that, I support. Thank you."
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