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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mule",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Mutinda Mule",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order No.33(1), I seek leave to move an Adjournment Motion for the purpose of discussing matters regarding the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa and other parts of the world. Aware that under the Constitution the health policy is a function of the national Government, I seek to ventilate on the Ebola outbreak in the recent past especially as related to Kenya. This is a viral disease that is spread through contact with contaminated people and can cause quick death. In fact, already over 4,000 lives have been lost in the world to this disease in the affected countries. There is need to protect our citizens from this deadly disease, including Kenyans travelling internationally. The World Health Organization (WHO) has categorized Kenya as being a high risk area of transmission. The Government should therefore ensure that the country is fully prepared and safety measures are being implemented by all relevant stakeholders including but not limited to, screening of passengers travelling from the affected areas, training of medical personnel and health workers on how to deal with Ebola patients both at our ports of entry and within the country, educating citizens on precautionary measures and equipping health facilities with isolation wards to deal with this scourge. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is very clear that this issue is touching both the economy of the country and has infringed the human rights of some of the people who have been suspected to have Ebola. The first case I want to highlight is that, we are losing at the social platform of economies. For example, parents in the United Kingdom (UK) demanded that teachers who have an exchange programme with Kenya, if they go back, they make sure that their children are withdrawn from school because of the perception that there is Ebola here. We know very well that the Government has assured that there are no cases of Ebola in this country. But the perception is that in Kenya we have Ebola. Secondly, it is very saddening to hear the story of a Kenyan who left this country for Seychelles; as it will be explained by the seconder of this Motion. The authorities went ahead and treated the body with chloride to an extent that they did not even allow four hon. Members of this House who visited Seychelles to see it because it was completely destroyed. Thirdly, we have children from this country who travelled to USA and they are being quarantined. They are being called “Ebola babies” by the Americans. Surely, we need to clear the perception as leaders of this country and tell the world that Kenya is an"
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