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    "id": 1426151,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "We need to amend the law such that in future, if we encounter a challenge such as COVID pandemic, where there is lockdown, patients will not die or suffer. Remember at that time, there were no admissions in hospital. You would be told to take your patient home. Most of the patients suffering from cancer have a challenge of being taken home for palliative care. For somebody who is terminally ill, palliative care becomes the only option. So, imagine treating your patient at home or somewhere in my village called Kapkeben or in Mosoriot and you can do teleconferencing with your doctor on the going. This also about meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Vision 2030. I know we have moved to Vision 2050. It will revitalise the health structure. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, let me say this. You know I was with you when the Garissa Health issue happened. You know, many governors think health is the hardware, but it is the software. It is the service you get when you go to see a doctor. Governors are busy building infrastructure as opposed to providing services. We have a Newborn Facility Unit within Kapsabet County Referral Hospital. It cost almost Kshs600 million. So, we have to revitalise the health infrastructure to allow service delivery. My fifth point is we use telemedicine nowadays. When you are sick, you can write something on WhatsApp and your doctor responds. It is part of the e-Health that we have. A study published in the National Library of Medicine shows that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can also help in diagnosis because of its precision. There are cases in Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Union (KMPDU) where a wrong diagnosis has been prescribed and lives have been lost. You go to a hospital, receive the wrong diagnosis, wrong prescription, wrong drugs and you end up dying. If we introduce AI telemedicine and e-Health, we will be precise like the eye of a military marksman. That will be the precision when AI comes into place. We will not do guesswork. Where I come from, the elderly people do not describe. They say I feel the thing of the heart. When the doctor asks, what the thing of the heart is. They cannot describe it. They call it in my language kiitab ingwo’ny . So, it becomes a challenge when they go to see a doctor. Now, the AI will ensure there is military precision. I am happy you are resonating with what I am saying because all our people will get prescriptions. For us who watch sniper movies on either Netflix, Amazon, or any other place, we know the essence of precision. Therefore, AI will ensure the use of military marksman precision. AI have been used in startup and monitoring in oncology. I wish the Senator for Kisumu were here. I do not know how far Jaramogi Oginga Hospital has proceeded with the issue of AI. I also hope the problems that Nakuru Memorial Hospital have will be resolved soon so that we can introduce AI. I can see my leader is very keen, especially on telemedicine and e-health. I hope she sees it in terms of service. You know she is an entrepreneurial lady, maybe she is asking herself where the money will come from. Anyway, that is a story for another day. This has led to 60 per cent of duty oncology calls by enabling patients to interact directly with AI-driven systems for real-time monitoring by oncologists, assessing patients"
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