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    "id": 788671,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "The declaration of cancer as a national disaster and setting up a fund are key issues in this Motion. This is something that we have been aware of from as far back as 2005 when it was noted that unless something is done, we will have a double burden of disease. This means that we have infectious diseases like Tuberculosis (TB) and malaria and we are also getting into a heavy burden of non-communicable diseases like diabetes, hypertension and cancer. That has now come to be. Whereas we are saying that cancer is killing more people than malaria and TB, more people get the infectious diseases, but they do not die because they are treatable. We have the burden of infectious diseases which we can treat and a burden of non-infectious diseases, specifically cancer, which is harder to treat. The danger then will be shifting money from the infectious diseases to non-communicable diseases because of the deaths that we have experienced and risk-reversing. It is still important to focus on them, but more in terms of prevention than treatment. I say that because treatment is extremely expensive. The money that is used to buy one cancer machine can treat many million kids who have malaria. However, we cannot say we will not treat cancer patients because we are treating malaria patients. We must do 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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