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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ndiema",
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        "legal_name": "Henry Tiole Ndiema",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I support this Petition because it is really disheartening to know that people who are ailing from this disease are not receiving the attention that they need, which is especially found in the national referral hospital. It is not only for cancer cases but even other ailments. In some of these hospitals, there is a waiting list and sometimes a patient is given the first appointment one year later. Remember we are told that cancer should be treated early enough. It then becomes too late to treat it by the time the first appointment comes and we are losing so many Kenyans because of that. The referral hospitals in counties even lack many equipment and personnel. It is high time that a quality control inspectorate is established for health facilities in the country to ensure that certain standards are met. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am getting a lot of complaints in my county because there are no nurses in the dispensaries and health centres. For example, in Kachibora, and Endebbes, there are no adequate personnel. There are facilities which should be closed because there are no nurses. Patients are going there and being turned away because they are not being attended to. I think the most important thing is to invest in training doctors. There are so many qualified Kenyans living Form Four with very high qualifications. Why can we not open up training? The Government should fund the training of experts including oncologists so that when others leave and get greener pastures elsewhere, we have adequate personnel for this country. We should study what is happening in countries like India. We are spending a lot of money in foreign currency sending our people to India and yet we can save that money and create employment for our youth in this country as doctors and nurses."
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