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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang-Nyong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are really doing our best to make sure that we have this facility at the KNH operating by February, next year. Secondly, in order to have the Cobalt machine, you need the concurrence and corroboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency. We are in communication with this Agency. A team went to Austria in September, this year. The team was lead by the Permanent Secretary. I met our Ambassador to Vienna in New York last week and discussed the same thing. So, we are moving with all speed to ensure that these facilities are operational. I have said that we only have four cancer specialists in Kenya at the moment. At the moment, we are training eight medical doctors from provincial hospitals at the KNH for radiation specialization so that they can have some knowledge of oncology and radiation oncology. They are currently training to provide cancer treatment in the two satellite stations we have opened at Mombasa and Kisumu so that the KNH does not have the only facility for cancer treatment. Plans are underway to train other technical staff in the field, namely medical, physical and therapy technologists that can handle this matter. A cancer treatment is something that cannot be done overnight. People must be trained and equipment must be bought. Since I came into the Ministry, the equipment available was broken down but we have rehabilitated the one in Kisumu and are training people from Kisumu to go and use it. The four specialists who are here travel to Kisumu occasionally to offer treatment there. So, within the short period we had, we have rehabilitated and put in place a plan to offer better cancer treatment. However, I would not like the hon. Member to take lightly the issue of insurance. This is because if our people are insured, they can immediately get treatment at the MP Shah Hospital. In order to get treatment at that hospital, you have to pay for it because it is a private facility. You cannot afford that treatment if you are not insured. Very soon I will come to this House with a comprehensive Statement on the cancer issue."
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