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    "id": 1426149,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "I wish Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale was here. I thank the head of Public Service, Felix Kosgei, Cabinet Minister, Mama Waziri Susan Nakhumicha and a retinue of Government officials, including the Cabinet Secretary in charge of labour, Florence Bore, for ensuring that the issue of the doctors' strike was amicably resolved. I challenge the same team because now the laboratory technicians and clinical officers are still on strike. I wish those issues could be addressed because we need human resources to run these hospitals at the end of the day. The moment human resource within the health sector is in dire straits, it is a clarion call to Council of Governors (CoGs). We send our condolences to people who have lost their loved one whilst trying to climb Mt. Everest without supplemental oxygen. As governors try to go to the highest possible point, somewhere in Mt. Everest that health is devolved. They should also walk the talk. They should address human rights and human resource by ensuring our doctors, clinicians, laboratory technicians and clinical officers are well remunerated in terms of access. The issue of ICT will create employment. I will run through in the interest of time to allow my colleagues to contribute. With the national ICT policy and e-government strategy, we will now have citizen services. Nowadays, you must apply everything through E-Citizen. We must ensure we put the ICT policy in place. The President is very keen on the ICT labs. Let us use it to prevent cancer. Through e-health, the health sector in Kenya envisions efficient, accessible, equitable, secure and consumer-friendly healthcare services enabled by ICT. Can you imagine having your doctor in India, but you are being told to go to KNH, MTRH, Coast or Garissa County Referral Hospital and consult with your doctor in India via a huge screen. You will have saved the cost of flight tickets and accommodation as well as fatigue because this is somebody who is sick. This is very important. I ask my colleagues to rally around it so that we can fight cancer. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the biggest challenge on the fight against cancer is late diagnosis. A friend the other day told me that they realized their cancer is at stage four, yet there is little that one can do. The patient undergoes pain and resources that belong to the family are few. This e-medicine and telemedicine will assist in cutting the cost of health care services in this country. I hope counties will engage. After we amend the Cancer Prevention Act, counties must put e-health and telemedicine within their infrastructure so that somebody in Habaswein, Kapkangani, Emgwen, Kaptumo sub-county hospital, Kapsabet or MTRH, Kilome and across the country can access it. It is a global trend and the World Health Organization has defined the combined use of electronic communication and information technology in the health sector. So it borrows from e-health. Mr. Temporary Speaker, for benefit of members and the debate ahead, e-health has already been adopted by World Health Organization. Even in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic, e-health was being used on telemedicine because at that time, there was less movement."
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