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    "id": 598326,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving the opportunity to speak to this Motion. I support the Motion as amended. How we respond to emergencies is very critical to the lives of Kenyans. Indeed, after an accident that has caused injuries, much of the life of the person or persons injured depend on the care given by the person who has come to do an emergency care or evacuation. Hon. Deputy Speaker, if the medical staff responding to the injured person is well equipped with the knowledge of how to handle a delicate person in an emergency situation, lives can be saved. The opposite could also be true; the state of a person who is suffering from minor injuries could be further complicated and their life threatened by the manner in which untrained medical staff handle them. As Kenya modernizes and grows in terms of major superhighways, high speed trains and many other means of transport, the likelihood that one accident could result in multiple injuries at a given time is higher now than ever before. We have seen that happen in many other countries. In the last few years, we have had very unfortunate terrorist attacks leaving many people critically injured. An example is what happened in Garissa back in April. This informs us that, as a country, we need to be prepared by ensuring that we have highly qualified medical staff that can be relied upon to attend to injured persons in an emergency situation. Hon. Deputy Speaker, all our sub-county headquarters health facilities should have theatres and trained personnel to attend to those who are injured. In northern Kenya where I come from, whenever an emergency situation occurs and people suffer injuries, it takes so many hours to drive to the county headquarters at Garissa. Sometimes, the situation is so dire that the facility in question might not be enough to handle the situation. It might require more than 10 hours drive to Kenyatta National Hospital to save that one life. We should up the capacity of our sub-county medical headquarters so that it is able to conduct minor operations in order to save lives. They could save lives by stopping bleeding and giving attention to the injured persons."
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