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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Thirdly, you would find that within the space of e-health, there is a lot of web-based technology and information that one can go and start reading on these matters. The only problem is that most Kenyans would not be bothered about anything to do with a heart attack or the potential for a heart attack until a family member, including a wife, a child or somebody suffers from it. That is when everybody goes to read and take information from the internet. Nobody bothers about that information unless it is directly affecting them. However, with these e-health interventions, people have become tecno-savvy to even count the steps they have taken in a day and even do the number of calories they have burned in a day So, within that space, if e-health is promoted as this amendment proposes, we will be able to have the information coming to us, including where we are seated here debating. Somebody teaching in a classroom at the university at primary school, or even treating somebody else, a prompting can come to your phone to tell you that it is time to go and do this and that for the sake of your health. So, this Bill ought to be supported by the Senate. It should be given all the support so that we can promote e-health and e-medicine. Before COVID-19 pandemic came, we never used to think beyond the traditional methods of treatment. If you were feeling unwell, you would want to go to the doctor. However, when COVID-19 pandemic came, we realized that it is possible to treat yourself by just logging in to a doctor or having a virtual appointment with him. You did not have to go to him or her. They could give you directions from where you were and how to treat yourself. It is something that saved many lives. It takes time, but eventually, we will get there. I know that even here in Nairobi, many people have not quite gotten into telemedicine. However, we will get there. I know that people even in rural setups, like in my county, would take those images for X-rays when they were working. Nowadays, they are not working. However, when they used to work, they would take those images and ask somebody to read them. So, you do not have to travel all the way to get an interpretation of the X-ray image. Appropriate treatment is given even from a very far-off place. For those of us who are practitioners of the law, you would remember very well because you are also one of us,"
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