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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the chance. I would like to reflect on the Statement by Sen. Hamida on the use of contraceptives and how it is related to unintended pregnancies and abortions. This is a very important matter because it is right at the heart of the productive age of our women. Without reproductive women, there can be no country called Kenya 10 to 20 years from now. I, therefore, appeal to the Senator to consider using her resources and office, so that access to contraceptives is not misused, abused and misunderstood. Contraception by way of the modern methods is something which is foreign to us. The owners of those methods had an original intention of controlling the populations of the black Africa. As we allow women access to these contraceptives, we must accompany it with adequate education. I firmly believe that a woman who should take contraception should have a minimum of three children to start with. Secondly, that the traditional methods running from cultural rights to family care should be able to help girls not get the so-called unintended pregnancies. Lastly is post-abortion care. Eighteen counties, as we speak this afternoon, among them Kakamega and Machakos doctors, are on strike. These young people get this abortion every day. Post-abortion care is always a life-threatening, emergency and can only be handled surgically by a competent doctor. So, the fact that there are no doctors, means that young women are dying in Machakos and Kakamega and the other hospitals of those 18 counties. The Senate must move with speed to ensure that these doctors are back into the hospitals by putting pressure on governors who prefer to spend money on living large. Mr. Speaker, Sir, can you imagine the Governor of Kakamega does not want to pay doctors, and the other day, he bought for himself an armored car – Lexus – for Kshs54 million. Not that we cannot drive that kind of vehicle, but who would want to kill him? I assure the Governor of Kakamega that his life is not under threat. He is wasting our money. Let him use those millions of shillings to pay our doctors. We are waiting for him. He is being very unkind. We cannot allow governors to spend money on luxury instead of paying our doctors. I was looking at the proposed budget estimates, and the Government wants to ask us to allow only a paltry Kshs1.7 billion for the doctors who keep on walking around the streets here. That money is not enough to get those doctors back, to address their salaries 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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