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    "content": "that lay men like ourselves need to pay a lot of attention to in a university that knows what it is talking about in a manner that Sen. Kagwe has got to dig into it and know it. One example which Sen. Kagwe gave and I got into it when I was the Minister for Medical Services, is this whole idea of tele-medicine. I think it is very important. You do realize that tele-medicine would revolutionize the cost of health care delivery. Tele- medicine would catapult us into the age of expertise in giving medical services beyond what we know today. We are complaining today that we have a shortage of doctors, but tele-medicine kind of jumps over that and makes us use the few human resources that we have in a much more cost effective manner. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will give you an example. By connecting the Nyeri Provincial Government Hospital with a hospital in Spain and Tenwek Missionary Hospital, the two hospitals would be connected to Spain. You realize that we have been doing eye surgery using Spanish experts without individuals having to be referred to Spain physically and having to spend lots of money on air tickets. Just through tele-medicine, two doctors, one sitting in Nyeri, another one sitting in Spain and a nurse sitting in Tenwek have been able to do fantastic eye surgeries. This is just an example. So, what Sen. Kagwe was saying is true. If we are going to catapult into the future in terms of development, one of the areas which we must consciously and effectively handle is this fibre optic. It is a shame that we only have 4,800 kilometres of fibre optic and yet what we need, as Sen. Kagwe says is 65,000 kilometres. We should collectively go into this with a lot of zeal which will enable us achieve our goal within no time."
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