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    "id": 282951,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/282951/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am not aware that Kenya does not have trained speech therapists. As a country we have three who are engaged in training those who require this service. (b) We have four non-Kenyan speech therapists in addition to the three Kenyan speech therapists. The three Kenyan speech therapists are serving at the following institutions: 1. Kenya Institute of Special Education (KISE), Ms. Grace Macharia; 2. Gertrudes Garden Children Hospital, Ms. Lorna Muthoni; 3. A private practitioner operating a private school with special needs, of which speech therapy is one; this is Ms. Pauline. The services of these seven speech therapists are supplemented occasionally by others who come from the USA through the Voluntary Service Organisation (VSO) Programme. Mr. Speaker, Sir, going by the 2009 census statistics, the total number of people in the whole country with speech problems, who require the services of speech therapists, are 161,803. This figure highly contradicts the one brought by the hon. Member."
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