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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am referred to as Tim Wanyonyi. That is my preferred name. I beg to support and second the Motion. I am not a medical doctor, but I know that there are some things that go on in our healthcare that require the Government to intervene. Some complicated issues like fistula can be treated by corrective surgery. However, because of prohibitive costs, you find that most Kenyans cannot afford to go through the process. They choose to stay with the condition and live a painful life. Some are even rejected, as the Mover has said, and find themselves in very awkward situations. The Government should subsidise the treatment of fistula and completely support the patients who have this kind of condition so that they can get corrective surgery. It is not good for somebody to go through such a situation when the Constitution provides that everybody should have access to healthcare of the highest level possible. Most of the time, you find that people have even succumbed to opportunistic diseases because of conditions that have not been treated. Most of these conditions just require simple surgeries to correct them. You can see the numbers. Out of every 1,000 deliveries, four result into fistula, which results to between 50,000 to 100,000 new fistula cases every year. This is a worrying situation and if not taken care of, it will escalate and might become very dangerous. Because of the cost of delivery, most of our women end up in very substandard clinics where they are treated by quacks who perform surgery on them during deliveries resulting into these kinds of situations. If this 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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