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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " That is good, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. It will give me sufficient time to move, second, and maybe then one or two of our colleagues can contribute. I do not intend to be long on this. After all, I understand the interest of our colleagues. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to now move that the Digital Health Bill (National Assembly Bills No.57 of 2023) be read a Second Time. Mr Temporary Speaker, this is a very important Bill or piece of legislation. Colleagues will recall that when you were in Turkana for Senate Mashinani, I did mention that there are four enabling Bills to Universal Health Care (UHC). This House successfully transacted two of them and completed them with amendments. We fostered devolution by ensuring that many of those funds are locked up in our counties and agreements ensuring that county governments and the national Government relate and, respect each other. This Bill is an addition to the other two; the one on Primary Health and the one on Community Health Promoters. This is about technology and the use of technology to enhance and make health easily and readily available to our citizens. You do know, Mr. Temporary Speaker, for a fact that in many of the rural communities that we represent, if your mother or the caregiver, loses an exercise book--- in my village, they used to use the 32-page exercise book and in fact, it would be divided into two--- If a mother, for whatever reason, loses that particular book, the health records of that particular child disappears, and the next time she goes to the clinic, first she has to do the first five minutes of being given a tongue-lashing by the community nurse. Then they begin to build up the records. Unfortunately, that story has not changed even as we become adults. As we speak well here in Nairobi, to many of the people that we represent in this House, the issue of their health records is something that they continue to struggle with. Many communities are not able to keep the health records of their citizens, yet we know that we are living in the data age. This is a time upon which when you make data readily available, then it is a source of wealth."
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