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    "id": 1407842,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Crystal Asige",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity to second this Bill; the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Bill, 2023. I feel privileged to stand here to second this Bill because I am a person who will be assisted when a time comes for me to make a decision to have a child and build a family. I am not a mother yet. The Mover of this Bill is one of my biggest encouragers to start a family. She keeps asking when I will start a family. I want to tell her today, in front of all Kenyans as I second this Bill, that the reason I have not started a family of my own is because of personal fears and doubts of readiness to be a mother of a child or children with my visual disability. Moreover, my own fears are relayed by examples that I have seen with women and girls who are pregnant with disabilities and giving birth in our healthcare systems. The atrocious treatment that they sometimes get has scared me out of making this decision of starting my own family as a young woman with visual impairment. However, I am glad to stand and support this Bill because I know when enacted, it will help people like me allay some of these fears. The principal objective of the Bill is to propose a legal framework through which delivery of high quality maternal, newborn and child health services can be enhanced, addressing the morbidity and mortality among mothers with children and ensuring access to health rights for us, as well as any other matters related to maternal newborn and health. It also seeks to provide a platform for raising the profile for maternal health services. Provide a framework for formal engagement, cooperation and promotion of coordinated approaches to service delivery between the National and the county Governments. Enhance accountability and social funding for these health services."
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