Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1485044,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1485044/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 306,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Nicholas Ng’ikor",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "to deliver to the nearest health centres. They stay there, and we monitor them until they deliver. All this is done through the information from community health workers in our nearby dispensaries and health centres. That is a very important group in the health sector. Community health workers will help our people in health matters when this law is enacted. They help immunise small children who are five years and below. Those children were not immunised in my community because their parents were not even aware of the immunisation exercise, or example, the polio vaccine. The children were not immunised in some areas because we did not know where those people lived. But with the introduction of that team, those services are rendered in all the places in my constituency. The token that those people are getting is insufficient compared to how they manage the issues in those areas. They travel on foot because there is no public means in my area and other areas in northern Kenya. They travel many kilometres to help people. We need a Bill like this one to assist them in travelling, buying water and getting something to eat with their families. I believe that we can take the introduction of this law as a Christmas gift in our country. We need to pass it to help community health workers do that great job in our communities. We talk of primary healthcare in the country. The introduction of those community health workers has minimised the mortality rate of our small children. Nowadays, you cannot hear of it in some areas. It has decreased just because of the information they get from those people. Once they get those tablets, they take information from the health centres to our grassroots, where everybody knows what to do. For example, they inform people about boiling water and what food to eat when one is suffering from a certain disease. Many people get information, which is power. All the information on health matters gets to the people through the health workers. It is good to allocate most of our health budget to that team. Health is a devolved function; it is in the counties, and we want it to be devolved further to the villages. The way to do that is through the community health workers. There is no other way to resolve health matters. We can talk of devolution being at the county headquarters. However, according to how the Bill was drafted, the headquarters is in Nairobi. In my opinion, we need to strengthen the headquarters at the county level so that they can provide healthcare services to the people in the villages."
}