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    "id": 1426147,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "What we are trying to do is to amend Section 2 to ensure that when you are somewhere in Garissa County Referral Hospital, you can engage your doctor in Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) or Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) or even outside the country. It also says: “Promote the use of e-health and telemedicine for the prevention and management of persons with cancer and promote treatment of persons with cancer as a component of primary health care.” This is very simple. My opening remarks was that cancer continues to be the greatest killer in the country, but I am not only talking of cancer. We must put in place the necessary mechanisms. The e-health strategy is anchored on the achievement of Vision 2030 whose overall goal is to have an affordable health care of the highest achievable standards. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the reading of our Constitution is very clear. This should have started with my submission. Article 43(1)(a) on economic and social rights talks of the highest attainable standards of health, which includes the right to health care services, including reproductive health care. We are calling for implementation of Article 43. We are ensuring that health care is accessible and practicable. The Constitution is very specific when it says: “highest attainable standards of health.” You do not need to buy a ticket to fly to India, America or anywhere else. You can contact the hospital you want to engage with your consultant here in Nairobi, Kapsabet or any other county. I am saying this with an effort that we have invested so much in ICT infrastructure in the country. We are laying the cable across the country. Other than South Africa, Kenya has one of the biggest access to internet in Africa. Therefore, we must use the internet. The president has been pushing for ICT hubs in more than 290 constituencies. At Taptengelei in Tinderet sub-county, young people are going to a tertiary college to work online. If we can work online to earn money from Taptengelei, in Kaiboi, and across the nation, it means it is possible to use telemedicine and e-health."
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