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    "id": 621335,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Elachi",
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        "legal_name": "Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I also rise to thank the Chairman of the Health Committee. In our country, the month of October is a month where everyone rises up with a pink ribbon and either creates awareness on cancer or breast cancer but I want to thank the Senate that we are talking about it in the month of February when the country is still quietly waiting until the month of October which is the cancer awareness month. It is only during this month that we talk about cancer yet we know that it is one of the diseases that is really killing people in our homes. People are facing various challenges and they do not know what to do. They look at their family members who are ailing and they wonder what they can do. Some of them even do not understand that it is cancer. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we know that the Government promised to buy the facilities and the equipment to put in the hospitals. I know it has taken a while. When you go to Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), you find a patient who is supposed to go through dialysis is supposed to stay for three months. That patient already has an appointment but that appointment will wait for three months for him to see a doctor and yet when I look at KNH, I ask myself - I hope the Health Committee will do that - that it is supposed to now be a hospital of in-patients and not out-patients. We must stop this thing of people thinking they can walk to KNH and to the casualty and be treated so that we also give a bigger leverage to those who are suffering from “big” diseases. I hope as we move on, Sen. (Dr.) Zani talked about Panadol. It is unfortunate that the governors themselves have decided that when they are requesting for their medical facilities, there is a footnote that you must give them drugs of this pharmacy. It means it is business as usual. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we also need to ask ourselves what happened to our Pharmacy and Poisons Licensing Board. Is it doing its work? Today when you look at the medication we are taking, it is part of the reason why we are also going to get cancer. Asians in this country – I am sorry to say so on the Floor of the House - have industries that are doing crazy things in our country. We need the Pharmacy and Poisons Licensing Board to come out and tell us what they are doing to ensure Kenyans are safe, we are able to get quality and to ensure---"
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