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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank the Leader of Majority for giving me the honour to second this very game changer of a Bill. I could not be a better choice. I am one of the few Members in this Senate and in the National Assembly who is an expert in the matter which is at the heart of this Bill. Drawing in support of this Motion, I ask colleagues to draw experiences from what the Government did to improve the education system. The so-called National Education Management Information System (NEMIS). It has revolutionized the management of national exams and monitoring of children as they move towards national exams. It creates a unique personal identification code that helps the child to be monitored as they move up the ladder. In this case, it is more critical because this Bill will speak to life-saving measures. It might look simple but listen to this: A woman who has never gone to school (there are many in this country), probably a young mother, pregnant for the first time, has no idea why the nurse gave her an injection when she went for an antenatal clinic. All she cared about was probably because she had a cough or malaria. However, the injection she really needed was for securing the unborn child against tetanus at birth. It is called injection against tetanus, the TT vaccine. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when this girl goes to the clinic, she gets a malaria injection. She is asked “Have you ever been to the clinic?” she says yes. She is then asked “Did you receive an injection?” she says yes. So, the subsequent nurse assumes that the injection she got at the time was against tetanus when actually it was for the treatment of malaria. So, this girl carries this baby for nine beautiful months, the child is delivered under difficult conditions but dies from tetanus."
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