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    "id": 1495866,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Chuka/Igambang'ombe, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Patrick Ntwiga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. I rise to support today's amendment. Health education is the most important thing you can give to the community. Community health workers are always available to give out health education to our people because we do not have enough doctors and nurses to go around educating people about health. Most diseases can be prevented if people get the right health education. That is the essence of public health. It is when people get the right health education. It becomes very tricky when we give people jobs as community health workers and yet, we do not give them any skills to take up the job. You, at times, attend a function and listen to a community health worker teaching about a disease. You go out wondering whether people do not go home more misled than they were. I support this amendment. We need basic training. Not very complicated training. We need basic training in things like counselling and psychology. We are living in a country where things like depression are becoming a major health issue to us as a country. Community health workers are the people who are best-placed to deal with things like depression in the community. They are well-integrated with the people. People trust and listen to them. I support that we need basic training to make them good community health promoters. I support, Hon. Temporary Chairlady."
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