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    "id": 780737,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ochieng",
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        "legal_name": "Pamela Awuor Ochieng",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Much as we are speaking Kiswahili today, I have waited until the spirit of speaking Kiswahili is gone. So, I will try it tomorrow. I stand to support this Motion by my good friend “Jicho Pevu”. The truth of the matter is that the issue of health in Kenya is a painful one to think about. This idea of having several referral hospitals in various parts of our country is overdue, especially at the county levels, at least to start with. All of us are harassed because people are sick and dying. When we go to the counties and constituencies, the communication is one, namely, death and sickness. Like in the case of cancer, quite a number of our women are dying of cancer, especially cancer of the uterus and the breast. We all know that as the medics say, they can be helped if there are equipment and facilities that can detect this kind of diseases in good time. I fully support this Motion. Look at the case of Migori County. We have a Level 4 hospital which has nothing. Any small thing, including just a chest x-ray, you would need to take a patient to Kisii. That would take you a whole day or two because the doctor to interpret the x-ray is not there. Any other case more serious than that has to be brought all the way to Tenwek, which is quite a distance. Most of those people live below the poverty level. Even getting funds for transport to bring them to those far-flung hospitals is a big issue. It is our humble appeal that putting everything else aside, the national Government and the devolved government need to give the issue of health priority so as to save the lives of our people. When we have a healthy population, the community can work to reduce poverty and other ills that affect the society."
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