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    "id": 1347730,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1347730/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ruth Odinga",
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    "content": "Times are changing. Let us be realistic. We have pandemics. In the Nyanza region, we have a very high prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) that take away a lot of our young people. Most homesteads have remained with old people who do not have anybody to look after them. In some cases, you find only elderly people and young children of parents who passed away through HIV/AIDS or COVID–19 in the villages. Most of the young people sell the family homes and the land left behind by their parents to a point that the elderly persons stay in homesteads where there is nothing to support them. They are neglected. We do not have homes for the elderly like in Europe where we can take them to stay. This Bill is very timely for us to see how we can support the elderly. It is on the dignity of old people. We go to places where we have public spaces. When they go to public hospitals or any place to look for services, in most cases, they are kept waiting like any other ordinary person. We need to see how we can give them space to continue having their dignity in the public places. There is also an issue of the facilities that we need. For example, when you want to get them support like walking frames, crutches and all the aids that they need, they are not cheap. In most cases, they do not get them for free like they should."
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