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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Nicholas Ng’ikor",
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    "content": " Thank you for allowing me to add my voice to this important Motion by our brother and colleague, Hon. Peter Owino. In my opinion, this Motion is long overdue. I come from a place where we do not have even a dispensary. My constituency is vast, and the dispensaries there are countable. With the population there, most of my people live in rural areas where getting nearer to health services is a problem. Hon. Temporary Speaker, with the introduction of those community health workers in our villages, I can testify and say that health matters have improved by a great percentage. Those people are supposed to be given regulations the way we have stated here. I urge everyone to support this Bill not only for the CHWs, but also for the entire population in our country. In the marginalised and remote areas like where I come from, people die due to small diseases which can be managed. But with the help of those community health workers, people get information. Sometimes, back in my constituency, pregnant women were not aware of those clinics. However, through the help of those community health workers, a number of them go to clinics nowadays. We have set up a programme for the areas that are without dispensaries through those community health workers. We take a number of pregnant women who are about 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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