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    "id": 1522067,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to laud Sen. Chute. This is a sad occurrence. As a medical expert, I can confirm to the nation that the breakout of Kala-azar is a symptom of a failed state. Kala-azar, otherwise known as Black Fever or Leishmaniasis, is a tropical illness that occurs when the health system has collapsed. In Africa, you find it in South Sudan and Sudan. How did Kenya find itself where it is now being compared to South Sudan? This disease is so lethal that out of 20 people infected, if not rapidly attacked, 19 of them die. That is what we are leaving the people of Marsabit to undergo. I, therefore, want to inform the Ministry that we know these things. In fact, in 2020, a vaccine against Kala-azar was developed and approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO). However, the licencing of this vaccine has not taken place in Kenya because of busybodies who want to be bribed before they can licence it, or what have you. Let this vaccine be licenced and applied in this country. The Kenya Kwanza Government has also been successful in addressing primary health care through the stipend paid to Community Health Promoters (CHPs). That level of intervention can actually clear this disease. What do I mean? All that the CHPs are supposed to tell the patients is to cover themselves with a piece of cloth, including a long one because the vectors that transmit these parasites are sandflies. The CHPs, with the support of the ministry - and this is why I am talking about a failed state - just spray. You spray the sand flies, and they go away. You can use minimal cost to ensure that people sleep in protected bedrooms and where you do not have high-tech bedrooms like nets---"
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