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    "content": "who has cancer of the throat or share a plate, you will be infected. This stigma is not going well especially in the villages where people think it is communicable while it is not. These are the myths that these committees that we see being established should be able to break. They should be able to explain to the communities what cancer is and what it means and explain to them that it is not communicable so that they do not stigmatize those that are already going through the problem of cancer. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to touch on two issues. First is the report. The other issue that I want to touch on is the amendment. May be the Chair and his committee can think about it in terms of the submission of this report to the county executive. In a way, we need to rope in the county assembly. I do not know whether when they are presenting the Bill, they can explore whether they can present this annual report to the Health Committee or to the Clerk’s office so that it is debated in the county assembly. How do we oversight these county assemblies? If we want to anchor it, then we should be able to include the county assemblies so that they buy into the idea, and being the primary oversight at the county level, they should be able to not only allocate money if they understand it better, but let us break it down so that they are able to feel a part of it. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the other issue is that we do not have a problem with laws. I think we have excess laws in this country. We have many Papers and Bills. What matters is the implementation. We already have some of these strategic plans that have been developed by the Ministry, the National Cancer Control Strategy 2011 and the National Guidelines for Cancer Management 2013. So, what we need is the implementation of this Bill. I hope that after we have passed it, we should be able to follow with the Implementation Committee so that we ensure that it is implemented to the letter. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we will be able to break so many myths at the community level and we will reduce the rate at which this disease is devouring our country. If you look at cancer in children, in the developed world, we are able to save many because seven out of ten survive. In developing countries like Kenya only one out of ten survive. I think these are very gloomy statistics. With prevention, we can be able to save more souls and enlighten members of the community and ensure that we have a healthy nation so that we make progress. The other issue is the budgeting in terms of health. We know the limitations that we have in terms diagnosis is not only the machine but also the manpower. We have less than 10 oncologists in this country. I think we are doing badly in terms of human resource and most importantly the funding. If we follow the Abuja Declaration, we should be able to compel the counties through the county assemblies to allocate at least 25 per cent of their budget to health because if we have a sick nation, even if we build good roads, they will not make sense. We must be able to push not less than 25 per cent in terms of the budgetary allocation. I know we have not been able to push it at the national level but we can try it at the county level. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the other issue is the one for part 12 (a) in the Bill about nomination. I am actually confused because if the CEC is the appointee of the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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