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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Eve Obara (",
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    "content": "formally employed by the Government. That is one group of people that have been completely under-valued. In my constituency, I can tell you for free that the amount of work they put in and their commitment are beyond our expectations. Those are people who are passionate about the job that they do, and the support they give the community is great. They understand the community very well. They understand the language. They know the people and they are trained on basic health matters. The current group of community health workers are people who have gone to school up to Form IV and so, they have basic education. They are people who can even be admitted to medical training centres. I have worked with them through the Great Lakes University of Kisumu, and some of you know Prof. Kaseje, the founder of the University, who started a programme where community health workers can be trained on health matters. We have collaborated with them under the NG-CDF. We support the community health workers to be trained. We pay for that service. I support the Bill. Thank you very much, Hon. Owino. The Ksh2,500 that they get as stipend is too little for the kind of work that they do. In our communities, people die from diseases that should not have killed them in the first place. People even die from malaria and diarrhoea, while community health workers give them support. They should be motivated, recruited as professionals and put in the formal payroll of the Government for the great work that they are doing. We know that the number of doctors is not enough to cater for everybody. Not even the number of clinical officers. This is the gap that is being filled by those community health workers. Thank you very much. I support once again."
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