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    "id": 355359,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. H.K. Njuguna",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Gatanga",
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        "legal_name": "Humphrey Kimani Njuguna",
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    "content": " Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir, for noticing me. I have been here all time. I will, however, be brief. I am the Member for Gatanga and I must thank the people of Gatanga for voting me in against all the odds. There was the TNA wave and also the tunaweza make wave, but I still managed with NARC although in Jubilee Coalition. I thank them most sincerely. At Independence, we had noted that the three challenges of our society were disease, ignorance and shelter. However, today we are still discussing diseases. I am a medical practitioner and I would like to share with you some of the experiences that I went through. Indeed, I won the elections because I was in some of those camps. Sometimes the attendance is overwhelming. You have, say, 5,000 patients. This is an indication that the health facilities are lacking in terms of doctor/patient ratio, facilities and drugs. Why would you have such a high attendance in medical camps? At times, patients would be brought on wheelbarrows because of jiggers. There were also so many children being brought to the camp. This is an indication that poverty is a major contributor to these ailments. My contribution in support of this is to define what “emergency” is. Every medical case is an emergency in its own right because it could be pneumonia, but if not treated at the right time, it could be fatal. It could be meningitis and so if not diagnosed early enough, it would lead to death. So, there is need to define what “emergency” is. Every Kenyan has a right to access health care as enshrined in the Constitution. The reality on the ground, however, is that not every Kenyan has access to medicine. I am of the view that we need to come up with a universal health care where we bring all the stakeholders together. This is workable. If you talk of laptops for every child going to Standard One, even a universal health care is doable. I noted that in the President’s Address, he talked of prudent management of our public resources. It is anybody’s knowledge that we lose billions of Kenya shillings every year due to corruption. Like Dr. Nyikal has alluded to---"
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