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    "id": 1485035,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Karachuonyo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adipo Okuome",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I was thanking my friend, Hon. Owino, for moving this Bill. It is very important. In fact, we ought to have passed it a long time ago. I say so because I recognise the work that the health workers are doing. Indeed, if anything, the nation is exploiting their services. We are not fair to them. As one of my colleagues has said, those people wake up at midnight and are always on call. They go out at night while risking their lives to help the needy. Yet, we do not want to help them. What we give them in return for the important service is very little. The nation should feel guilty that those people are ignored and yet, their services are valuable to everyone. Communities get a lot of help from them. We also know that hospitals, dispensaries and other treatment facilities are far from some communities. The community health workers remain the only hope. We, therefore, need to recognise them and give them proper remuneration commensurate to their services. The nation benefits from their services. In the end, they reduce the medical expenditure of the nation if proper care is taken at the grassroots. One of our colleagues said that illnesses start right in villages and not in hospitals. So, we need somebody at the village level to take care of the sick when a disease calls. Imagine if there is no community health worker, and a hospital is 50 kilometres away. What would the sick person think? Just death in front of them. The Bill is very timely, and we need to take action on it. I urge my colleagues to support it fully so that we can provide services where necessary. With those few remarks, Hon. Temporary Speaker, thank you so much."
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