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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": " Very well, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Thank you for giving me this chance and thank you for coming in to allow me speak on the Community Health Promoters Bill. That is a group of people who have evolved from just volunteers within the villages, originally attached to maternal deliverance, and now helping in projects that, maybe, were limited to immunization, and now rising to become the center stage of every other health occurrence within the communities. I want to congratulate the Community Health Promoter (CHPs) in Emhaya Constituency, who have organised themselves in units, which they often tell me are called CUs. One is in West and another is in Central and another in Northeast. Those people are working and they are actually meeting so oftenly just to deliberate on matters that concern the health of our people not only in Emuhaya, but countrywide. What I heard, Hon. Temporary Speaker, when I was seated where you are, is that the movement is far and wide. It is everywhere. I heard about the CHPs in Turkana and what they are doing. I heard about very exciting experiences of where they even gather mothers who are almost getting into lactation situations into centres so that they can be taken care of to make sure that we reduce on child mortality especially at the level of delivery. In Emuhaya, we have tried to coalesce them to work closely with bodaboda owners so that whenever an expectant mother is due for delivery, she is transported to and from the health 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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