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    "id": 1323893,
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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": "treatment because they will have access to professional care in the confines of their place of origin. This amendment by Hon. Rahim is extremely welcome. There will be need to dispatch medicine using technology. If drones are made a mainstream tool for delivery of healthcare products and medicine, we might need to revise the principal Act to include such technological developments. Many Kenyans rely on their mobile devices for information and research on some of the issues affecting them. Cancer treatment requires a lot of information which a patient may not get during a normal doctor’s consultation due to the limited number of oncologists in the country. One oncologist is attending to hundreds, if not thousands of patients at any given point. So, the face time between a doctor and patient is limited to the time available to the doctor for that patient. With the availability of new devices, connectivity and great effort we are putting as a country through the introduction of the digital superhighway, we are calling on Members of Parliament to install digital innovation hubs in their constituencies. Those will be points of reference and information so that every patient from the comfort of their house, using a device or even visiting a connected center, can get critical treatment information about that very dangerous ailment known as cancer. Technology is always advancing, and our laws also need to keep up with the times. When the principal Act was being authored, it might not have taken cognizance of the advancements that are happening in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). So, the effort by Hon. Rahim to bring the use of technology in attending to patients and situations of cancer is very much welcome. Hon. Rahim has spoken to the use of technology in healthcare. As we speak today, if you go round, you will find very many e-health providers in this country. There are corporate and private entities such as MyDawa, who are trying to put e-health as a common place for attending to ailments; mHealth Kenya, Health-E-Net, MedAfrica, Access Afya, Nyumbani Medics, Medbit Kenya and Xelpha Health. All those are examples of efforts out there to keep up with technology for better provision of healthcare even beyond cancer treatments. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I vehemently support the efforts by Hon. Rahim Dawood to bring e-health and telemedicine platform as a way of attending to the calamity called cancer. I will take this last minute to thank my colleagues Hon. Members who have stepped out of their way to assist me at a time when a family member was battling cancer. Early this year, my father was diagnosed with a very aggressive case of colon cancer. Hon. Members were magnanimous enough to stand with my family, not only emotionally and morally, but even financially."
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