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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Odege",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Mboya Odege",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to support this Motion which is before us. Allow me to start by congratulating my sister for the elaborate presentation she has made. When we talk about cancer there are so many fundamental questions we need to ask ourselves. First, why is it cheaper for us to treat our cancer patients in India compared to Kenya? This is a question which if we got an answer will help us to establish and manage this problem as a country. You can find that when you transport a patient from Kenya to India, including the air ticket, treatment and medicine it is still cheaper than managing cancer treatment in our own country, and we need to relook into this area. Another very important issue is the laxity in Government facilities. We are talking about management of cancer in KNH. I can tell you from the queue we have there a poor man who takes himself there will die before seeing a doctor. There is a lot of laxity and lack of systems in KNH to allow someone to walk in and get treatment. There is no system at KNH, which is a government facility, where somebody can walk in and get treated and go back to their home county, leave alone the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Eldoret. We need to go deeper. Now we are talking about our own technical staff trained to manage cancer. We should go deep and see how we bring people on board who can manage our own health system in our country. If we do not diagnose our own problem in management of cancer in this country, we will still continue losing our very best in this country. 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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