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    "id": 51571,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Affey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Affey",
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    "content": "Thank you Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. At the outset, I would like to congratulate my friend Mr. Mbau, for thinking about this matter. Very rarely do we think about the dead. In most cases, we think about the living. However, the dead have an impact on the living. This is because it is the parents, relatives and friends of the deceased who feel the pressure and the pinch not only of the loss of a very close person, but also of the expenses and demands that come with providing the dead with a decent burial. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have on several occasions had an opportunity to intervene in a matter like this at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). We unfortunately lost people from home; they travelled all the way from North Eastern Province. They were young people coming here to seek jobs and possibilities of earning a living. There were also elderly people who come to seek medical treatment, because Nairobi is where medical facilities are. Unfortunately, they lose their lives, or die at Nairobi hospitals, where they went with the hope of recovering. Unfortunately, you are confronted with huge medical bills. This is why I would like to thank the KNH; it has in most cases been very sensitive to the dead. I had one occasion when they assisted a family who had lost their loved one. That family was expected to pay a huge amount in form of a medical bill; unfortunately, the family could not raise the required amount. The hospital authorities had to detain the body. After I intervened and told them the reality about the family, they were quite sensitive and released the body."
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