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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi City County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to the Community Health Workers Bill that has been brought by Hon. Martin Owino. First, I congratulate him for taking the bull by its horns and realising that CHPs provide that service, but it has not been well structured. We recently saw the President launch the community health promoters' drive. It was very well funded by donor partners. They were all given kits and uniforms. There was much excitement about finally being recognised. We need to have the buy-in of all counties. We also need a legislative framework so that the county governments can engage community health promoters or volunteers under a structure. I hope the council will be all over the country, in the eight former provinces, if not in the 47 counties. It requires that we have structures. Hon. Temporary Speaker, when we look at health, having had the pandemic, we know we are already preparing for the next pandemic. Every time we have vaccinations, we always call on the community health promoters to come in. Training is important. The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) was the one that was driving that whole community health promoters and volunteers' agenda. They called them in every time we needed polio vaccinations or education on various health issues like typhoid, cholera, et cetera . They were providing that service and were paid a stipend for the period that they were working and serving. At that particular point, the donors engaging AMREF were paying them ad hoc for a particular service they were providing, training them on what they have to do, like mobilising people from various estates to come for vaccinations, which was important. They also educated people about the dangers of not having those vaccinations. We have realised that with the 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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