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    "speaker_name": "Gilgil, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martha Wangari",
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    "content": "also ensure that our institutions continually study, research and develop so as to enable us to get closer to becoming a producer and not just a consumer of vaccines. Hon. Temporary Speaker, what we have seen in this country is that the moment you give birth to a baby, you start vaccination from that point. Not many parents or even mothers are aware of it, especially the ones who give birth in the homes and those who give birth in areas that are far flung. They are not able to access vaccination services at the time they should be getting them. What that does is it actually exposes their children to further problems in future. I am looking forward to this institution to ensure that vaccinations are done in schools. As we talk about accessibility, we will be able to integrate those, considering the whole Government approach to ensure that we have even vaccinations done in schools. This will also be accompanied by a lot of civic education. We have seen many religious groups… I will give an example of Kabonokia Group, which has even been taken to court. They do not believe taking their kids for vaccination. This should ensure that every child goes through the mandatory vaccination so that everyone can be given what we call the herd immunity. That is because even if you vaccinate one person and the others are not, you are still exposed. So, we will be hoping to ensure that that will happen at this point. The establishment of the institute will also go a long way in engaging our academia and our academics. Students studying biomedical and biostatistics will find it useful and they will be employed. It will also be a source of ensuring that they get absorbed in the market and practise the trade that they have been trained on. What the world has shown us is that you cannot be too prepared. You do not know which disease will come. People never knew about COVID-19 and Ebola. They would say someone has bewitched you and yet, it is a disease that with the right research, it would have been prevented. You can prevent cervical cancer from the age of 10 to 15 years when vaccination is administered. Some of these issues will need a lot of education. It will need a lot of involvement by Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) and by the civil society. It has to take everyone on board and leave no one behind. With that, then we will be able to ensure we have a healthy society, a health community and a healthy country that can be very well useful when needed. Without that, we will be dealing with treatment and yet, we could have prevented it. The last point is for the county governments because it is their area. They need to ensure that all the vaccinations are available at the dispensaries and the health centers. That way, we do not have to load it to the referral hospitals. We can leave them for the serious diseases and the referral cases. With that Hon. Temporary Speaker, I support."
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