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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on the issue of CHPs, we, as a House, must pronounce them as at-risk population. When we use palatable and educative terms like what the Senator for Homa Bay has used and say they are frontline health workers, it sounds beautiful. I think we need to refer to them as an at-risk population and this is my reason. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want you to picture a CHP, who every single day has to go to a house to check on a patient that they do not know has Tuberculosis (TB), or any other infectious diseases that they might interact with from different patients that they do not know their conditions. They are the first people to engage our people on the ground without capacity to detect any kind of diseases that people they interact with might have. Secondly, they do not have any kind of protection. Today, if you walk to a hospital and get any basic nurse, they will have some basic equipment before they handle a patient. We are assuming the way CHPs have been taken in this country and the assumption is very fundamental. The assumption is that when they go to check on our people, most of them are in good health. The reality is that majority of CHPs end up interacting with sick people with communicable diseases that they do not have control over. If they are not protected enough as frontline health workers in this country, it is a very sad state of affairs. Madam Speaker--- I do not know why I keep on calling you ‘Madam Speaker.’ I think I am still seeing Madam Temporary Speaker, Sen. Veronica Maina, on the seat. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, think of adverse weather conditions like what we have seen in Nairobi. I have seen a situation where the Senator for Nairobi or myself, the Senator for Migori being confronted by Community Health Promoters (CHPs) who have to go through floods barefoot and help people. The cost of gumboots in Nairobi is just Kshs700 and Nairobi County has 7,000 CHPs. If you were to give them gumboots, it would be only Kshs4.9 million. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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