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    "id": 1484983,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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    "content": "In Malawi, they have what they call ‘Community Bench’ which offers community health workers an opportunity to give some talk therapy to the sick. This is because community health workers have the opportunity of knowing the patients better since they themselves live within the communities. As a patient loses the capacity to think properly, the community health worker would know about it and arrest the situation as early as possible. Hon. Temporary Speaker, in this time and age, it is not acceptable to have a Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) of 5,000 per 100,000 live births. Statistics show that we have had instances where about 6,000 mothers out of 100,000 died while giving birth. When an expectant mother leave for hospital, the family expects her to return home with a baby. But we are witnessing a high mortality rate instead. We have a requirement for expectant mothers to visit health clinics at least four times before giving birth for pre-natal care. It is not as easy as it is said. A mother who is expectant needs somebody to support and motivate her to ensure that she gets to the clinic as required. So, as we invest in community health workers, I believe that the MMR will go down because they will ensure that pregnant mothers visit health clinics for monitoring as required and, if they notice anything wrong during that period, they will ensure that it is diagnosed promptly and corrected."
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