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    "id": 1485039,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1485039/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "Nairobi City County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": "We also have many short courses that we can present to our community health promoters. Short courses can help them become caregivers because we keep talking about a bulging youth population. In another 40 or 50 years, that bulging youth population is going to be an aged population. We will still need to have structures on how to care for older people and their needs. We also need to make sure that, instead of having older people get their pressure, diabetes or arthritis tablets from the hospital facility when they can hardly stand up and walk, community health promoters can register those patients. Then, they can go and collect tablets from the nearest facility, deliver them and tell the family how to do it. We also need to see how we will take the diapers and wheelchairs and how we can ensure that whatever we engage them to do, serves the delivery of universal healthcare. It is going to require money. As a country, we have to put our money in areas that touch on the people the most. That is what they expect of their politicians. They expect their pain points to be touched. One of the biggest pain points is health. Cancer is everywhere. We have patients that are in so much pain. They cannot afford the cancer treatment. They are just in their houses. Even if the community health promoter visits them, they endure much anguish. Are we going to have a debriefing? Are we going to have counselling for them? We are talking about how they are able to provide a service. However, what service is the Government providing to community health promoters? They are human beings. They see so much pain out there. They see no solutions. How are we debriefing them? How are we counselling them? How are we strengthening them? When we want to do something like UHC, we know that community health promoters are integral to providing that service. Let us not exploit the people who offer themselves to do that service. Let us recognise that they are an important part of delivering universal healthcare. Let us ensure that each county engages them and ensures they get their payment on time. An"
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