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    "id": 1485113,
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    "speaker_name": "Rangwe, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo",
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    "content": "For the longest time, we have components of our workers, groups or the echelons which the community health workers work, which is the most reachable by the communities. As it has already been said, they have so much data concerning the villages and communities where they reside. There are healthcare researchers and associated researchers who target those community health workers to give them information. That is a matter that should be guarded through training. Whoever goes to them must be certified and follow the right channel before they reach them for information. Healthcare information is very paramount. It should be at the heart of every individual and every person for purposes of their prestige and goodness in living. I applaud and appreciate all our healthcare workers at the level of the communities. Some of them are even village elders. Allow me to digress a bit. As much as we are discussing about community health workers, we have another group of service providers at the lowest community level in villages, at Nyumba Kumi and Nyumba Tano, Hon. Temporary Speaker. We also need to remember those people. They hold this country with their strength and also hold this country to standards of best governance. They just need to be facilitated. They should be given monies that they require, but they also need to be officialy remunerated. Their work is not different from the work we do as Members of Parliament. As we are renumerated for the work that we do, those people also need to be remunerated for the work that they do. Of course, I have already talked about dispute resolution using professionals that are available at a slightly higher level. I have talked about the exposure to traditional medicine, the knowledge those people have; and I have also talked of research and code of conduct. This Bill had been brought to the House earlier, but we could not dispense of it in the 12th Parliament. But I want to thank the Hon. Member for Ndhiwa, who has brought it again so that it is relooked at because of its importance and because of the work that community health workers will do in establishing the standards. When we have standards at the ground level, that is when we can talk of traceability. We can trace sources of diseases; we can trace movement of diseases; we can trace end of diseases; and we can trace disease cycles - how they happen - just by the basic information that we are going to get from those people. With those very many remarks, for the time that I have been given, I thank you Okeyo Asumbi. Thank you so much, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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