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    "id": 418384,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my sister, Sen. Omondi, comes from my county and votes for me in Matungu. We should move away from the mzungu culture of wanting to be alone surrounded by only your personal problems. The culture of taking children to children’s home and taking the aged to aged people’s homes is un-African by itself. We should develop strategies to ensure that we support the families; the bread winners to be able to take care of these aged people. As I was googling, I found that the dependency ratio due to old people in Kenya is merely 4.9 per cent. It is not a big deal and we can handle it very well. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what is it really that the aged people want? They do not want too much. This is why I think the drafters of the Constitution captured it very well under Article 43 of our Constitution that speaks to the issue of social and economic rights of Kenyans. They only need food and water, some form of shelter in the name of reasonable housing, clothing and medical care. When you dissect these things, the biggest challenge is actually medical care. Under medical care, the Government should not just focus on the old people. We should also focus on training more doctors. Today, the Government can only afford one doctor for every 10,000 Kenyans and this is when you are taking the global picture, but in practice, most of these doctors work in urban centres, mainly Nairobi, Mombasa, Machakos, Nakuru and Kisumu. We need to go there because the reasons why old people die in the rural areas is not because of diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer or road traffic accidents. Yes, they do, but that is not the main killer. They die from treatable things. You will find that most of them die 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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