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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Thank you Deputy Speaker for this very important Statement request. I know my Chair will be able to comment on how soon we will be able to give an answer. This is a case of big magnitude. It is a threat to the Kenyan lives. I think Kenya Airways is behaving in a rather irresponsible way, because they are putting money before the lives of Kenyans. As a health practitioner, we think that apart from the Kenya Airways exposing Kenyans to this risk, we also have the transport sector, especially on the roads, right through Zaire, Rwanda, Uganda and the western part; it will be the responsibility of the Government that at our borders, especially at Malaba, Busia and Suam norder in my Constituency of Endebes--- We want that it be guarded and we have proper qualified medical personel manning the border there. The normal practice of the Government is to send public health officers to those places. I think this is not just a question of public health officers. We should have qualified medical officers who are trained in disease surveillance, and those who work with disease outbreaks should be able to monitor those close borders. We will ask Kenyans to also co-operate with the medical personnel and Government agencies, so that in case of the arrival of anybody with the various symptoms that have been explained by our medical personnel on the radios, televisions and other forms of medium. In case of any signs and symptoms--- I remember that sometime back when we talked about Ebola, Rift Valley Fever and other hemorrhagic fevers--- Patients who also swallow rat sometimes start bleeding from all orifices and people may start running away thinking they have Ebola. These are the dynamics that we need to come face to face with as we face this very threatening disease."
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