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    "id": 1276620,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1276620/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Dorothy Muthoni",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to second this very important Motion. I want to thank Hon. Machua Waithaka for bringing this on the Floor of this House. Kenya is a country that is developing. The fact that a majority of our infrastructure including sanitation is not very well taken care of translates to the problem that we are having of deworming. Intestinal worms are primarily transmitted through contaminated soil or physical matter. In rural, pre-urban and informal settlements, there is inadequate sanitation. Human waste and faeces can contaminate the environment including the soil and the water that our children take on a daily basis. children playing or walking bare foot in contaminated areas, can easily contract the worm by ingesting the eggs or the larvae of the worms. It is very evident and research has it that Kenya showed that school-based mass deworming decreases absenteeism of our school-going children by 25 per cent. It is important to note that when school-aged children go to schools, they have no boundaries. They use the same facilities, they walk bare-footed, they do not regularly wash their hands and hence this problem is very prevalent in our schools. Based on this, it is important that children are regularly dewormed so that they can stay in school for a longer period. One important aspect of regular deworming is that it ensures that the retention of our children in school is maximised and the time of going to hospital is also reduced because very few children will go to hospital because of contracting worms. 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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