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    "id": 301069,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/301069/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mungatana",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 185,
        "legal_name": "Danson Buya Mungatana",
        "slug": "danson-mungatana"
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to disagree with the Minister that the Ministry only comes in to make sure that the water is clean, which is very true. However, the mandate of the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation is preventive. A lot of its business is preventive as opposed to the Ministry of Medical Services which is curative. The use of water as a preventive agent in medicine is very clear even when you eat food and you do not drink water. Even when we had the cancer awareness day here, the medical personnel told us that drinking water is a most important function that must be undertaken by any human being. The Public Health Act empowers the Minister to issue a lot of directives and I would like her, if she is not prepared today to do it, to go and look at it and she will agree that there are so many powers within it that she could actually give directives on and a circular to restaurants to ensure that there is water. It is not a matter of business; it is not a matter of convenience but it is a requirement for public health that if you are going to give people food, like githeri, you must give them some water to digest. Otherwise we will have stomach aches and so on. Could she consider giving a directive under the powers of The Public Health Act that restaurants should serve a minimum of boiled water to accompany meals?"
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