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    "id": 1485006,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1485006/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka Nithi County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Susan Ngugi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this very important Bill that has been moved by Hon. Owino. Hon. Temporary Speaker, one might wonder why we are seated here today to talk about community health workers. The Bill seeks to form a council that is going to develop a framework to support, guide and regulate the work of community health workers in the villages. Community health workers are very important people in our community. They reside with the people in the community. They understand their culture, beliefs and values. Community health workers are agents of change, especially in the under-served areas in our community. I come from Tharaka-Nithi County, and in the lower parts of the county, you can find an entire location without a single dispensary. The community health workers are underpaid and most of them have not even been trained. They have not even been guided on how to prevent contracting diseases from their patients. It is those community health workers who help prevent the spread of diseases. In the local language, we say that prevention is better than cure. If those community health workers are empowered, and there is a framework to regulate their actions, the amount of money that we are using to treat patients, buy medicine, or even put infrastructure in our hospitals, will go down."
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