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"content": "Hon. Speaker, this is a public petition by cancer patients of the Republic of Kenya on review of the Customs and Excise Act on Railway Development Fund and cancer drugs funding in the National Budget. I draw the attention of the House to the following: Aware that the recent taxation of imports under the Railway Development Levy has included taxation on donated medicines and drugs; noting that such taxation has affected the continuous supply of Glivec donated under the Glivec International Patients Assistance Programmes by Novartis, who is based in Switzerland and Max Foundation of the USA; noting that the Glivec medicine is taken daily by cancer patients to keep blood cancer under control, failure to which they are prone to treatment breakdown, drug resistance due to mutation---"
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