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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Samburu County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Pauline Lenguris",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this chance to add my voice to this important Motion that seeks to take care of our children. Children are the most vulnerable to worms’ infestation because their immunity is developing or yet to develop. Untreated worm infestation prevents our children from healthy growth. Worm infestation has caused poor nutrition among our children. It has also reduced the capacity of our children to concentrate and learn because if they have been infested by worms, they miss school and stay at home or go to hospital to seek treatment. Why are we saying it is important to deworm our school going children? Deworming in schools will help increase the little ones’ nutrition uptake and management of infections like anaemia, which is a very serious disease that affects children with worm infestation. It also helps in reducing worm infestation that occurs in the community. You know that once a worm infects one child, it is easily transmitted to many other children in the community and even to the parents. And as one of my colleagues has said, we come from different regions in this country. There are regions that children suffer because of lack of nutrition. They also suffer because of poor 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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