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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwamkale",
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        "legal_name": "William Kamoti Mwamkale",
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    "content": "Thank you hon. Deputy Speaker. For record purposes, my name is William Kamoti Mwamkale, Member of Parliament for Rabai Constituency. I rise to support this Motion. First and foremost, it is a constitutional right to have those services. Article 43 of our Constitution clearly states that everybody has a right to the highest attainable standard of health. Therefore, the Government needs to consider giving that right to its citizens. Hon. Deputy Speaker, Article 25 of our Constitution clearly states that this is among the rights which can enable any citizen to go to court without any fee and demand that the Government provides health facilities for that citizen. Indeed, those hospitals we are relying on, referral hospitals – are regional facilities. We have health facilities in each of our former provincial entities. However, in those hospitals, many of our regional hospitals that are referred to as “referral hospitals” do not have cancer screening machines. What you would find there are renal facilities. The Coast General Hospital, which serves four counties, has only five dialysis machines for the four counties. That is inadequate and many a times patients have lost their lives because they are referred to private hospitals which charge Kshs7, 500 per session. Considering that renal patient requires dialysis sessions every week, many people have lost their lives because those services are not available and if they are, they are not affordable in private hospitals. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I do pray that this Motion passes so that each county can have a facility for screening cancer. Those who are suffering from that disease have to wait for results from Nairobi to go to the former provincial facilities and many people have lost their lives. Indeed, life expectancy in Kenya has gone down because we are failing to address the diseases that are killing our people."
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