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    "content": "I say this with a lot of respect to our key Ministries in this issue that these products are thriving simply because we do not have affordable medicines. We may speak about free medicine for our women in this country. However, it is not free. Today, you can say that a woman can go and give birth free of charge. However, she will be told to go with a maternity kit that she needs to buy. I say this because I deal with women in the slums of Nairobi. Whenever they go to hospital, they are told to go with this kit. The minimum cost of this kit is Kshs2,000 or Kshs2,500. If a woman does not go with that kit, then she is not awarded free maternity services. The alternative for this has become the cheap medicines you are finding on our shelves. They are available and they are licensed by the very Government. When they do not work, you cannot blame the women for running for cheap products because they do not have the money. I would like the Government Chemist and the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) to look critically at these medicines that are coming in because they will continue to be the alternative for the women who cannot afford. I support the Vote for this Ministry but to request that you look critically at the issue of reproductive health services for women. I support."
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