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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nakuru Town East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Gikaria",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Mine is just a follow-up on what my colleague, the Member for Kwanza Constituency, said. When responses come from the Cabinet Secretaries in this very important session, sometimes they are very fast. We could have these responses in writing so that we also read. I am not a very fast learner. If the responses were here with us, we could also be following. That would really assist us in making a very meaningful debate and asking follow-up questions when we want. Secondly, the Cabinet Secretary said that as they try to address the problem, one of the mitigation measures is to have local manufacturing companies for these drugs. She said that, that is their focus or vision. By what time are they expecting to have that kind of initiative? My third follow-up question is that she has also said that she is in touch with counties to be able to provide these medicines. What has been the actual response? Is the Ministry getting positive feedback from the counties in providing the same? If the counties are unable to even give painkillers at our local dispensaries, how will they be able to do this? If the response is negative, what is the Ministry doing? Lastly, it is about the Community Health Promoters (CHPs) she says they have been trained to handle epileptic patients. We all live in this country, and more so in our constituencies. We do not leave our constituencies. Most of the time, when we go out there to see what the CHPs are doing, we are told that epilepsy is one of the diseases that is always avoided; it is never spoken about. Can the Ministry do some further training of the CHPs, so that they can be in a position to create public awareness on how you can handle an epileptic patient? Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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