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    "id": 480574,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/480574/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lesan",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wilfred Rottich Lesan",
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    "content": "Mr. Chairman, Sir, whereas I support the amendment which has been sought, I think that we want to consider the seriousness of the underfunding of our institutions, especially the hospitals as they are. I just want to give a scenario that I experienced this morning when I went to see a hospital executive and asked if they could intervene to have a patient treated with squamous cell carcinoma. For those who know, this is a very aggressive condition. The patient was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma and given an appointment in June, 2015. I think that this is a big joke. We are simply sending people to their graves for lack of consideration of what is required to be done. If we give a budget like we have done, I think that we need to consider this very seriously. Even though we are asking the Governors to use some of the money for hospitals, I think it is very important that we seriously consider the health of the citizens of this country, through the resources that we allocate to them. The Kshs1.8 billion plus the money that we are going to ask the Governors to put in cannot set up radiotherapy centres, which we expect to be set in these hospitals within a very short period of time, in order to treat the very many cases of cancer that are ruminating in the country. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Sir."
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