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    "id": 1341190,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1341190/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "Dr Susan Nakhumicha",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Health",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker and Members. These cochlear implants are available, which are surgically implanted devices that provide sound signals to the brain of people with severe hearing loss in one or both ears. However, they are costly, and only two surgeons, based at the Nairobi Hospital and MP Shah Hospital, perform this surgery in the country. The Ministry has trained healthcare workers deployed in the ENT departments of the national referral hospitals such as at Kenyatta National Hospital and Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital (KUTRRH) in sign language, therefore, ensuring that healthcare workers can communicate effectively with patients who are deaf and hard of hearing. Through streamlining the referral pathway and links between the schools for deaf students and the local health facilities, sign language interpreters can accompany them as they seek medical services. The Kenya National Ear and Hearing Care Strategic Plan (2023-2028), among its objectives, provides the establishment of Comprehensive School-Based Ear and Hearing Care Programmes over the next five years with referral pathways linking them to the appropriate ear and hearing care centres. I submit."
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