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    "id": 364889,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "June, 2013 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 25 Hon. Wakhungu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to second the amendment by Mheshimiwa Sang. Indeed, what he has mentioned is very important; about the laboratory technicians. Laboratory technicians are very important especially when it comes to diagnosis of diseases. I want to give an example. About seven years ago, somewhere in Embu Provincial Hospital, there was an outbreak of malaria and at the same time we had typhoid and these two diseases in terms of their symptoms are similar. So, imagine that treatment was being done for typhoid and yet these people were dying of malaria. So, someone like a laboratory technician plays a very critical role when it comes to diagnosis of the diseases. In my constituency, I have also had a scenario whereby someone presented with the problem of malaria and the level of parasitemia was very high. Microscopy had not been done. So, he went there and was given first line management of malaria. So, this patient died because there was no laboratory technician to have done maybe diagnosis to determine the level of parasitemia so that the doctor could prescribe the right drug. So,"
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