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    "id": 350705,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/350705/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa County Women Representative",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gladys Atieno Nyasuna",
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    "content": "I would like to begin by commenting on four facets of this Speech. Homa Bay County, where I come from, has some of the worst health indicators in this country. I am, therefore, compelled to comment on the issues of health based on the Presidential Address. The abolition of the charges for maternity or for giving birth for women and the abolition of fees in all dispensaries and health centres; that is Level 1 and 2 hospitals is, indeed, a move that is pleasing to hear. However, if we look at the free primary education that was introduced in this country, we will realise that that education was not free in the actual sense. While we could sort of take chances with the free primary education, we cannot take chances with free health care because health is about life and death. When you arrive at a facility and you are told that it is free and yet it is not, the services that you will get are upstanding between you and your funeral. Therefore, these services have, indeed, to be free. The Government has to be sure that they are free before announcing them as free so that our mothers in the villages can receive them as such. We do know that the Level 1 and 2 facilities that have been spoken about - I am health management professional and I will say that these facilities use the small fees that are charged to buy very basic consumables such as gloves, cotton wool and spirit. We will be running into deep trouble if these charges are abolished and they are not well facilitated."
}