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    "speaker_name": "Samburu County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Pauline Lenguris",
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    "content": "sanitation and lack of water to take care of their hygiene. Therefore, these conditions mostly predispose our children to worm infestations. It is also important to deworm our children because it lowers the chances of hospitalization and admission to hospitals. This is because once these children are infected, they miss school to go and seek treatment. We have also been told here that some parents cannot even afford to buy medicines for deworming, leave alone hospitalization of the children. The suggestion by the Mover of this Motion is very important. We have seen most of our children suffering; they miss school because of worm infestation. We have also seen signs of worm infestation whenever we visit our children in schools. And our children and even teachers might not know these signs. Many of them have sore and painful tummies. Some of them have lost weight and are irritable. There are some who will tell you that they experience nausea while others have seen blood in their stools. Some pupils will present poor immunity. Therefore, this kind of programme will help in improving the health of our children. It will also help with the retention of our children in school. Studies have shown that once this programme is rolled out in schools, it will help in reducing absenteeism by 25 per cent. If we introduce this kind of programme in our schools, many of our children will be retained in school. We also want to encourage the Ministry of Education to take care of the nutritional value of our children. As it has been said by one of the Members here, some children do not even get food at home. We encourage the Ministry to provide nutritional value in terms of the school feeding programme. Deworming should be started in all schools. We hope that this House will set aside a budget for this programme to be rolled out in all schools. As I conclude, I also encourage the Ministry of Health to roll out this programme. It should incorporate it with the Universal Health Care Programme that is going to be rolled out in the whole country. It should ensure that this programme is introduced in all schools and will be done as recommended."
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