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    "id": 1316033,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Aldai, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Marianne Kitany",
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    "content": "man in my village in Aldai Constituency does not need to travel to Nairobi, India or look for oncologists in the United States of America (USA) or any other part of the world. At the comfort of people’s homes, they will access telemedicine and e-health. This Bill has come at the right time, when we are amending our Social Health Insurance Fund. Once it is in place, we know that those particular people will access the right medication, even as they use the technology that is in place. So, this Bill is very good. If you look at the statistics that we have been given, you will find that one doctor serves about 26,000 patients and one dentist serves 326,000 patients. With the kind of numbers and diseases that are coming up every day in our constituencies and villages, the number of doctors we have will not serve the population adequately. If we take advantage of e-health and e-medicine, we will go a long way. This was experienced and practised during the COVID-19 Pandemic when physical contact was not required. We saw that patients could be treated from the comfort of their homes with e-health, and they got all the right medication during that time. We should entrench this provision in our Constitution. The Bill has come at the right time when the country is planning to roll out 100,000 kilometres of fibre optic cables, together with opening up ICT hubs and centres in every ward in every constituency in the country. We expect everybody to access e-health from the comfort of their homes. They do not have to travel far. I am happy that we are amending the Cancer Prevention and Control Act so that it also conforms with technological advancements."
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