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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion. This particular Motion is one that I feel is very close to my heart having been brought up in a rural set up. In 1990, my father developed a boil around the neck and for about two years he was being treated for just a boil – a disease of course that I believe did not exist. This is because when eventually he got better medical attention, it was realised that the ailment that we assumed was a boil was actually cancer that was in a very advanced stage. Of course, he could not be treated for the same because it was already advanced. In the year 1992 he passed on not just because of cancer but because of very many complications that came with the wrong diagnosis and the medication that he was getting for the wrong diagnosis. I believe this is not an isolated case. We have so many victims especially in the rural areas who are not able to get medical checkup in good time in order to be diagnosed when they have cancer. This of course, I would say has become like a killer disease for the poor who cannot access medical facilities. It is even worse when it is affecting the children. Of course, where it has been a success story, it has worked very well. I remember like the case of the young Rose Nasimiyu where today we can say that good medical care for cancer treatment in good time actually saved her life because that girl today is actually cured. Most of the population that is normally affected is people in rural areas and who cannot be able to access this facility."
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