{"id":22181,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/22181/?format=json","text_counter":18,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. James Maina Kamau","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":34,"legal_name":"James Maina Kamau","slug":"maina-kamau"},"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to give notices of the following Motions:- THAT, aware that according to the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, an estimated 18,000 Kenyans die annually due to various cancers and a further 82,000 new cases are reported every year; further aware that most cancer cases are treatable when diagnosed early and advanced technology and facilities used; concerned that Kenya has no national policy on cancer, cancer control law and national cancer strategy; noting that being diagnosed with cancer for majority of Kenyans is equivalent to receiving a death sentence owing to scarcity of facilities for proper treatment and forbidding costs involved; this House resolves that the Government makes cancer treatment free for all Kenya citizens."}