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    "id": 282954,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’- Nyong’o",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member is quite right. The Kenya Government does not have any tertiary institution that trains speech therapists. That is why I said that we have a major challenge in speech therapy. It is regrettable. Out of the seven speech therapists in this country, four are from abroad and only three are from here. We have to rely on neighbouring countries like Uganda or South Africa to offer specialized training for our people. The estimated cost of training one speech therapist in both countries is about Kshs4 million. So, without proper outlay of resources to the Ministry of Medical Services for this kind of training, we shall keep on having a shortage of speech therapists as well as other professions. As you realize, I did report to the House that during the current financial Budget, the Ministry was not allocated enough money for training. So, speech therapy is one of the areas that suffered seriously."
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