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    "content": "difficult, even for me as a mother when I am pregnant. It is not something I will agree to; I will only agree when I know that they are doing it when I am half dead and half alive. But it is not an easy thing. But since Sen. Mugo talked about Vision 2030 and there is the issue of prevention, then it is time we put in the prevention measures that will ensure that we can access any drugs. Even the simplest of drugs which women use when they are pregnant, like calcium drugs; it is so difficult for a woman to find them in rural areas. If you go to our brothers in north eastern, it is also a challenge for the women, and I will give an example without naming names. I have one friend whom we were together with in the labour ward when I gave birth to my daughter who is now five years old. Right now, she has three children. You can imagine, in terms of calcium and iron, where that woman is. Therefore, this is something that we now need to look at. We need to ask ourselves, as we do the report and the recommendation to the Ministry of Health; what happened to family planning? Because one of the things that has happened is that the doctors have taken advantage of that and, therefore, even if you go to the public hospitals, you will not get the normal pills that used to help women. You will find the injection and since the woman also does not want to disclose to the man that she is using family planning, therefore we go for those very strong family planning methods, and then you find families having challenges again. We use Depo Provera and those very strong ones. I know that the Jubilee Government has agreed to provide free maternal health care. We are, therefore, now calling on the Cabinet Secretary (CS) – because the President has put in the recommendations and the principle--- Some of the things we challenge the Government, we need to ask ourselves whether, as Kenyans who are within the positions we have been given by our people, we are able to change things for them. Because if the President has put in a principle, it means that he believes and he knows that there is a way of dealing with all the other issues. Therefore, we are also requesting that the Cabinet Secretary and all the Principal Secretaries (PS) should look at some of these things. They will look at this issue as if it is a technical issue, whereas politicians will look at it, not just technically, but socially and politically too. What does it imply? This is something that I want to beg our Cabinet Secretaries, who are now technocrats, to take into mind some of these things to help the President – our President; my President – and to be very, very firm in terms of implementing what he has really said. This will help Kenyans; it will remove this notion of people saying “the Jubilee Government has said and it is not being done.” I think the President has said he is willing to move on and see changes in the country. But the most important thing now is to ask the Cabinet Secretaries not to sit on their jobs. They must wake up and they must look at all the structures. Now that we have devolved governments and we are saying we have challenges between county governments accepting the health sector personnel to work in counties, we need also to ask the health sector personnel; “where were you working before?” Because if you were in Kisii, it is still Kisii; it is only the word “county” that we have added, but we have not changed anything; we have not changed the way you were working! So, even Kenyans should not make it so complicated for the real Kenyans, who The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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