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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Crystal Asige",
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    "content": "It is important that the Bill is seeking to align itself with digital and technological advancements in the health sector as well as other sectors seeing the boom in the digital industry across the world. Adding telemedicine as well as e-health to this Bill will absolutely make it possible to reach more people who are fighting cancer, have cancer in their family and need the support that cancer medication and treatment will provide them wherever they are in the country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is something that I have been talking about for a very long time. Since I began my advocacy in my work in disability in this sector, I have always spoken about the importance of digital technology and digital accessibility to support persons, who are vulnerable. My work primarily focuses on people with disabilities, but we are seeing more and more, as we continue debating. Seeing innovations growing in our country and abroad, the digital space will be the solution to so many of our problems. So many of the things that plague us as human beings, there is a solution that lies in the digital space. This is one of them. Cancer treatment, doctors and interventions, being able to reach rural areas and people who are across Kenya will absolutely change the game in terms of early intervention and management of cancer conditions, and hopefully reversal, so that more people in Kenya can go through remission. We can be celebrating more cases of remission in the future. This week, I met somebody. His name is Martin Imbalambala. Many people might know him and others might not know him. He was a former captain of Abaluhya Football Club (AFC) Leopards. He played for the team for seven years. Unfortunately, in 2018, he had a sports injury that gave him a disability, which is visual. He is now completely blind, like myself. He is a Very Important Person (VIP). He has been trying to figure out how to rehabilitate himself and bring his life back to his control. As I have been speaking with Martin Imbalambala and consoling with him, having meetings and conversations with him, his wife and his family, realized that digital access and being able to rehabilitate himself through the technology space, innovations and accessible devices, has been the solution for him. He has gone to the Kenya Society for the Blind and taken courses in braille, computer science and technology and how to use his smartphone with a screen reader like my own that I use here in Parliament. He is now in a much better place, not just as the sole breadwinner, a man who is supposed to be a protector and provider, but also as a father of his children. He has now gained back his confidence because of digital innovations and the device that he is been able to access. I am happy that I have been able to support him in his journey to give him softwares on his laptop that will continue to help him reach a level that"
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