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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Waruguru",
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        "legal_name": "Catherine Wanjiku Waruguru",
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    "content": "Thank you. I will try to be fast. Like I said, I thought I had 30 minutes and I wanted to utilize my time. We need early detection. We need palliative care for patients in Stage 3 and Stage 4. Those are cancer patients who have been termed incurable. I want to propose the following recommendations to this House. I am requesting the House to allow us to declare cancer a national disaster so that the Government can establish a cancer fund. The main areas of action which I want to recommend to the House are prevention, early detection and cancer screening. There is also cancer diagnosis, registration, surveillance and establishment of a registry which is well elaborate to capture our cancer cases and we work from data from Government records. Thirdly, is the cancer treatment. This includes palliative care and survivorship because it does not mean that once in Stage 3 and Stage 4, you are doomed to die tomorrow. We require an elaborate coordination, partnership and financing of cancer control programmes. We require monitoring and evaluation and research in regards to cancer, standardization and regulation of pricing - fee and cost - for medical professionals. I must mention that Kenyans are subjected to over-pricing, which is consumer exploitation. The private sector tends to over-charge. They increase prices for some of the drugs charged at Government hospitals. If, for example, the NHIF card caters for chemotherapy and radiology, you will notice, it does not matter whether you are a first timer using that card. They The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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