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    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Dekow Mohamed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the amendment by our colleague, Hon. Abdul Rahim Dawood. As many colleagues who spoke before me have said, this is a very serious issue. Cancer is a very bad disease. It is reported as the third largest killer in the country. It is so rampant again in the region I come from. I do not know why. In this amendment Bill, by my colleague, has talked about two issues, and one of them is telemedicine. As a country, we need to take advantage of the infrastructure we have in the IT industry. Let us use this opportunity to equip our health facilities with telemedicine equipment so that we can take advantage of the global world that is more advanced in the treatment and management of cancer. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I have had opportunity to travel to India for something else, but in that trip, I went to see a doctor just to carry out the normal check-up. I unfortunately met about six Kenyans accompanied by their families who were seeking treatment in that country. That means it is too costly for individuals to seek medical attention. I think we lack many experienced or trained personnel in Kenya to administer and manage this disease. With regard to the cancer institute, we need to have more research done on this disease. We do not know what causes it, but we only speculate. The people lack information on what actually causes it and at what time they should seek treatment from experienced or trained personnel. Many of the communities in the rural areas believe this is a curse and yet it is something we understand can be treated if detected in good time. Many people today, once diagnosed with cancer, take it as a death sentence. They feel that all procedures they go through are just to prepare them for death. I think we need to support the amendment on telemedicine. We should invest more in the IT sector and personnel. Even if we have the equipment and the network as a country with established collaborations with other doctors in the world, we still do not have enough personnel to manage this disease. I stand here to support that we need more investment in this sector. I support."
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