{"id":639932,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/639932/?format=json","text_counter":73,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Ms.) Nyasuna","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":590,"legal_name":"Gladys Atieno Nyasuna","slug":"gladys-atieno-nyasuna"},"content":"Many of our people cannot afford treatment. Even when you can, we do not have sufficient specialists to offer treatment. Our oncologists have to run from KNH to Aga Khan University Hospital and to Nairobi Hospital. They move around Nairobi. Last week, I gave an example of a constituent of mine from Nyadhiwa-Gwasi or Kiwa and the situation is difficult. Today, I have a circulation on social media of citizens’ initiative to raise money to treat one of our constituents called Steven Wasonga, a 26 year old young man from Kiwa Island and a student at the University of Nairobi (UoN). He needs Kshs3 million to go to India for treatment. These appeals come to us all the time. This evening, we will be having a fundraiser for Steve Wasonga at Garden Square to get the Kshs3 million. If this young man from Kiwa needs to access radiotherapy here at KNH, if he cannot travel, then he is just doomed to die. This is the gist of this Motion. The Motion proposes to have oncologists in our county referral hospitals to attend to patients from all across Isiolo, Garissa, Wajir, Tana River, Meru, Nyamira, Lamu Marsabit, Kisii and everywhere in this country. What costs are we talking about? Given the fact that this Motion has financial implications, it went through the Budget and Appropriations Committee. The Budget Office analysed what it would cost to train these oncologists as has been proposed in terms of one oncologist per county."}