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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogola",
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    "content": "It is worth noticing that I move this Bill against the ongoing medics strike who are the custodians of healthcare. This Bill seeks to put in place a framework for the wellbeing of pregnant mothers, new-born babies and children as well. In this Bill, the age of children goes up to 12 years. Madam Temporary Speaker, mothers continue to die while trying to secure the continuity of our future generations. As I speak here, last evening, we lost a mother in the Homa Bay Referral Hospital. She was a young woman from Magunga, Suba South and she left two children. If you were to go every other region, you would see that we continue to lose mothers as they give birth. That is why this Bill wants to address the wellbeing and the services that the pregnant women and new-born babies are entitled to. Sometimes last year, a declaration was made by the World President of Gynaecologists. The declaration talks about the fact that the measure of a country's state of health is predicted by its maternal mortality ratio; if we can guarantee the safety of our mothers in their pregnancies, as they deliver and the safety of babies in their first years. As we lose mothers when they are delivering, a commentary goes ahead to say that worse is that we cannot assure that every baby born stands a fighting chance to celebrate their first month of life. Madam Temporary Speaker, in all our communities, averagely people were able to applaud the standards of that community by the well-being of the women and children that are in those communities. In my village and not for any reason, men are judged by how well the women around them are kept and how the children they raise are kept. On the same note, whatever kind of man you are, if the women around you are not kept well and the children around you are languishing, you are not a considerable person to be notified. Madam Temporary Speaker, we must be intentional in reducing preventable maternal deaths. I know this story is everywhere. In December, in my local sub-district hospital, we lost two young women from college when they were giving birth. We lost the wife of a young teacher, Mrs. Opiyo. She was a promising young mother who left behind three children. She walked into a health center called Ongako in Ndhiwa sub- county, having prepared herself. In less than an hour, Mrs. Opiyo Milton was pronounced dead. Just the previous weeks, we had lost two students, Caroline Urowe and another young student. That is why we must be intentional on how to improve our services. How do we improve the services that are given by both levels of government to ensure that we reduce maternal death? Madam Temporary Speaker, even as we celebrate, it is worth noting that the impressive records of increased antenatal care visits and attendance in our hospitals, the skilled birth attendants and the indices that are recorded in our hospitals, have not translated to reduced maternal deaths in our country in the 21st century. This Bill will ensure that the status of maternal healthcare goes to the required international standards. I would also like to give a brief of a demographic health survey that was done in 2022. If I am not wrong, it could be the latest. It has percentages in our counties. If I read"
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