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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Shakila",
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        "legal_name": "Shakila Abdalla",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I first want to thank hon. Gitari for this very timely Motion. Cancer is a killer disease and it should be declared a national disaster like Malaria and other diseases. Cancer, apart from being a killer disease, is very expensive to treat and before one realizes that they suffer from cancer, they suffer a lot simply because we do not have experts, medicine and equipment in place. Most patients waste a lot of money travelling even outside the country only for them to be told that they are suffering from cancer; this is because our hospitals do not have the facilities within this country to detect this kind of disease. It is high time the Government came up with a programme to put in place for this disease. I even disagree with the figure of 22,000. I know there are more deaths than that because most of the people who die of cancer have not been detected to have died of cancer. They do not even know that they are suffering from cancer. Some get to know it at the last point. I support this Motion and urge the Government to take serious action regarding cancer. We need to train our professionals to handle this disease. We need to have doctors who can detect diseases at an early stage. We also need to have medicine, which will be accessible to ordinary mwananchi. Initially diseases like cancer and kidney ailments were for the rich people, but you now realize that even the poorest of the poor suffer from these diseases. So, medicine has to be readily accessible and available for the poor mwananchi, who is suffering from this disease. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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