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    "id": 1294938,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1294938/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "I know that this Bill is crucial, and I want to ask colleagues to take time and support this particular Bill because of the length of time that it has taken to be prepared, and the proposals that are therein, to ensure that our citizens can have their records kept in one interoperable system. Sen. Lomenen, if your citizens come to Nairobi and visit a health centre that will be on this National Integrated Digital Health Information System (NIDHIS), they will access Turkana records while here in Nairobi; something that is done in many of our private hospitals, but unfortunately, it is not readily available to our citizens. So, we are trying to make legislation to enable the ordinary villagers, the people that we represent in this House to come on to the civilized 21st Century and the practices that are therein. It is not anything new. If you know about M-Tiba, it is a programme that is run by Safaricom and a few private entities; they do the same thing yet, it is to the exclusion of ordinary citizens. Therefore, this Bill is very good. It elaborates propositions on how a comprehensive, Integrated Digital Health Information System can be rolled out, and includes a complete medical history; past diagnosis; medications that you have been given, and treatment plans. Even these issues about litigation that you continue to see about misdiagnosis or patients that have been treated wrongly, will become things of the past, or at least, health authorities will be able to refer back to your file and establish whether you have been handled properly or you were not given the proper medication, what is the history? This is something good; this is what we need for our country. This is what many citizens are yearning and dying for. With this kind of readily available information, even the cost of medical research will be brought down. There are big farmers that will make useful the information that is provided here in and guide them in terms of their research so that they are able to see why is it that people from a particular village in Kericho County are susceptible to a particular kind of strain of disease and they can release the proper medication. For example, here in Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA), county governments will not just be buying drugs with the hope that this or that is needed. Information will drive a fit for purpose system that ensures the information that is sent out to ordinary citizens is important. Therefore, I celebrate and say that Kenya has made tremendous progress in efforts to progress in digital technology. We are the trendsetters in technology. In the space of finances, the rest of Africa, including the globe, come to learn of our practices. This is another area that we want to lead the world into appreciating and knowing comparatively with other countries that are of our standing. I was listening to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) yesterday while driving to work. I heard how people have made use of technology and systems such as this to ensure that all the kids in the country get immunization at the right date and at the right time. With the use of technology, they are able to remind ordinary mothers in the village sometimes because they have so many other things that they are dealing with and they do not remember the day of vaccination for the child."
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