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    "id": 605615,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/605615/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang-Nyong’o",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this petition. I will be very brief. It is commendable that the petitioners have seen the importance of having radiotherapy machines or what we call linear accelerators in the treatment of cancer. My submission here, from my experience in the health sector, is that equipment is the second order of things. The first order of things is human resources. We need oncologists, doctors, nurses, medical physicists, cancer nurses and so on. This is because if you have equipment but no people trained to use it, you will not go very far. My observation is that the Government has given very little attention in terms of setting aside money to train professional medical manpower in our nation. Currently, with the equipping of hospitals through the project that the Government has initiated, very little attention has been given to train human resources. Finally, private hospitals like Nairobi, Aga Khan, MP Shah and I think now, the Texas Cancer Centre have linear accelerators. It would be good if the Government could have arrangements with the private health sector. This is because that equipment can be run for even 24 hours so that in the hours that the hospitals do not have patients, then patients from Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) can be treated there. These are the things that we should do in the immediate."
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