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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Migori County, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Fatuma Mohammed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the Bill. It will help us. Without putting politics and emotions into it. In Migori where I come from, we have small health centres that do not run. This Bill will protect and support small health facilities. We are overcrowding big health facilities such as the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), and the Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital because small healthcare facilities do not take our health insurance cards. This is like a devolved health programme so that people at lower levels can access healthcare. An example is when the COVID-19 pandemic struck and we were unable teach our people in villages that COVID-19 is a disease. If we have such health facilities and support staff, we will be able to teach our people that such diseases exist. People in big towns with bigger health facilities get information faster than those in villages. We should support health facilities. Health is the most important thing for a human being. If you are healthy, you can survive anything else. If you cannot get good healthcare, you will die, which affects our economy and the community. If we are an unhealthy and sick nation, we do not have a nation at all. I support the Bill. I request fellow Members to support it so that our grandmothers can access healthcare. My mother is diabetic. I am unable to constantly take her to the Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu and other big hospitals in Nairobi for treatment. She is suffering from a disease that is unknown in the village. Whenever I take her to a health facility in the village, I am told that they do not treat that kind of disease, they do not know the medication for it, and they cannot help her. We are frustrated back in the village. I support the Bill and request all Members to support it. May God bless us all."
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