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    "id": 788716,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/788716/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we do not need to bury our heads in the sand when our people are dying, and wait for the Government to respond. We, together with the private sector need to establish hospices all over the country. We had a hospice which was supported by Lady Diana Fund. A couple of years back, the Fund was pulled back. As we speak, there is no funding for hospices which gives palliative care. We need to look at other places where we can get funding for those hospices. I am a patron of the Meru Hospice and I know they have gone through trouble getting medicines for people who are suffering from cancer. I wish one day we could all go to the hospices that the cancer patients go to and see the sorry state they are in because of lack of medicines. We cannot help them much but we can assist in the pain reduction by giving them medicines. It is imperative that as a country we should have a proper policy on how we will treat our cancer patients. Being a major killer, it takes even the productive people in the society, people who are under 70 years of age. Some are in their 20’s and 30’s. I remember there was a harambee we did for someone in my constituency. He did not even last a year after being diagnosed with cancer and he was only 30 years old. He left a family behind."
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