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    "id": 1485003,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1485003/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Suzanne Kiamba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me time to contribute to this very progressive Bill. It provides an opportunity to this country to institutionalise issues of health workers. For the short period they have worked, we have very clear evidence that they are contributing significantly to the health in this country. Hon. Temporary Speaker, you realise that we are spending a lot of money in healthcare and on cases that would have been dealt with right at the household level. Once that is institutionalised and operational through that particular framework, the cost of healthcare will be reduced in this country. If the cost of healthcare is reduced, we may not even need an extra budget for those community health workers. The long-term impact will be reducing the cost of healthcare and, sometimes, those people are taken to hospitals when they are as good as dead. Treating them will cost so much that if we prevent some of those cases, then we would not even talk about the budget. I am talking about that because many of the Bills that we pass here never see the light of the day because most people think about short-term money. As we pass this particular framework, I want to urge us not to think about short-term money or where the budget will come from. If this framework is implemented, I am sure the healthcare cost will go down and claims of not having money to pay those workers or give them promotions will be a thing of the past. Hon. Temporary Speaker, most Kenyans are dying because of food deficiency. Nobody tells them what is wrong with the food that they are eating. Nobody even tells them the right foods to eat because there is a serious knowledge gap in our communities on matters of health. If this is institutionalised and made more acceptable to the extent of almost being professional, I am sure the knowledge gap in our communities will be drastically reduced. Secondly, you realise that we have communities that are sticking to their beliefs of superstition and witchcraft, even in cases of children who are malnourished. There have been cases where you can clearly see a malnourished child, but the parents are running to witch doctors. This will help us because after 63 years of Independence, surely, we cannot have our people still running to witch doctors on very clear issues such as malnutrition. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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