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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I have devised another way of catching your eye. Thank you for giving me this opportunity. With all the light touches we have had, we are taking this Committee a little lightly. In my view, this is an extremely important Committee of this House because it deals with the health of Members. When we talk about food, we do so in a casual way and take it lightly but if you look at all of us, our morphology seems to change once we come into this House. Is it a good or a bad thing? It is possible for this Committee to design our diet to take into consideration the fact that food is available to us in a fairly large amount. With proper planning, it can be the same amount because it is frequent but the calorie content will be such that we do not suffer weight gain. That is extremely important. Looking at the design of the Continental House offices, many of them do not have ventilation at all. I am not sure how many of us over the years have developed chronic problems which they may not easily attribute to the design of those offices. This Committee should deal with that issue. We were talking about the toilet facilities. It is extremely important. We know that it does not matter how sophisticated a hotel is, you can still get cholera there. This Committee is extremely important. We have also said casually that we sit here from 6 a.m. in the morning to 9 p.m. in the evening. That is a sedentary lifestyle. That is the quickest way to kill yourself. The gym needs to work. If you go into that gym, there is a lot of information that is put on the wall and in the toilet. I do not think anybody takes that information seriously. The Members need to do that. There is even a blood pressure machine that does not work. People take it casually but just taking your blood pressure every day is a serious intervention in the health of anybody after 40. These are things that may not make you feel sick but your health is actually deteriorating. Even the machines do not work and the staff take it casually. There are no actual programmes telling each Member that since you came, you seem to be rounder than before and so we can take you through a programme that will help you get your weight down. That will save us. I know we have a health insurer but who supervises how that health insurer works? The Parliamentary Service Commission like other commissions is busy and will not go into the details of how the health insurance of the Members works for them. It is this Committee that should really look at that. For your families, you have Kshs300,000 for outpatient in a year. I know the kind of routine check that you need to do once a year will take nearly half of that. Who is currently aware of that fact? When this Committee goes to other places to look at what"
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