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    "id": 553050,
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    "speaker_name": "May 28th, 2015 SENATE DEBATES 32 Sen. Mugo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to thank the Senator for Migori County for that answer which he read on behalf of the Chair. I appreciate the answer. I think we all have seen how bad this situation is. The reasons given here are definitely obvious, but we have had drought in the past and we had somehow managed to control cholera outbreaks in this country for quite some time now. Whereas I appreciate the explanations, I do not see other than that stakeholder’s meeting, what other interventions are going to be done so that we do not continue to have the spread of cholera. Cholera is very bad for us, as a country, and worse still if the World Health Organization (WHO) puts Kenya on the corridor of cholera; which would mean that when Kenyans travel they have to produce a cholera vaccination and when people come to our country the same thing is done. I am part of this Committee and I know that the Members have tried but if we could go further and ask what interventions would be done so that we do not continue getting this outbreak. I know that prevention and response interventions such as public education, hygiene and sanitation--- we understand that there are some counties which are not well equipped or have the capacity to do this. Is this a function that we could propose that the Ministry of Health continues to perform and empower the counties to take such responsibility? We cannot watch as the people continue to be killed by cholera outbreak until they improve. There are those counties which are able prevent cholera outbreak; only that it did not get to their counties. It is alarming that counties which have never had cholera before now have cholera. I think we should go back to the drawing board and see whether there are counties which might need support from the health Ministry, especially where disease surveillance and prevention is concerned. Thank you."
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