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    "id": 1395126,
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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "It is very sad to see that capitation in the education sector was reduced. We also reduced the money allocated to the education sector in the budget. We did not think of reducing it and then we take it to the schools with children with special needs. Therefore, it is something we have to re-look into. When we shall appropriate funds in the budget, we will look at those finances properly. We shall start appropriating a vote for schools with children who have special needs. Even if you tell parents to take children in a school where things do not function, what about the ones who are grown-ups? What happens to those parents? I know they go through a lot psychologically and emotionally. In this new shift that we are bringing in healthcare, I wish the Government could have a special medical card to assist the caregiver and person who is being taken care of. The needs of persons with disabilities (PWDs) are beyond the needs of able-bodied persons who can walk into a hospital to be treated once in a while. Persons with disabilities have to be in hospital 24/7. I saw on television yesterday a man who has lived in India with his daughter for three years while undergoing kidney treatment. In the end, the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) stopped sponsoring them. I wondered where the Kenyan Government was. We are just coming up with structures like buildings. What did God mean for humans? Where are we? Can we come up with a fund that will take care of PWDs? We come up with funds for everything as a country. Why not come up with a fund for caregivers of special needs children? That is where the rubber meets the road. It is very sad because I see we are about to get Ksh72 billion for affordable housing. It is good and important, but who will live in those houses if the human beings have already died? Is it fair? We have to build both. We must construct good schools for our children, including special needs schools, which must be the best. Finally, I want to thank Jacaranda Special School, which is among the best special needs schools in the country. The work the principal has done there is the kind of work that I beg the Government, through the Ministry of Education, to do. They removed capitation but we should bring it back for children with special needs. With those few remarks, I beg to support the Motion."
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