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    "id": 847074,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui West, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Edith Nyenze",
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        "legal_name": "Edith Nyenze",
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    "content": "have just been married and then they are supposed to really enjoy their marriage. They are very excited about marriage and then they are exposed to this embarrassing condition. You can imagine how such a girl would feel or even someone who is not married and then they have this condition and they cannot even disclose. They are embarrassed to even talk about it. They are not confident enough to even share it with anyone because most of the time it affects mostly girls who are not even educated. Therefore, they are really ashamed about it and they do not know who to share it with and they cannot even disclose it to a doctor. I encourage nurses and doctors who treat such girls or people with this condition to inquire further because even when they go to hospital, they might not disclose the condition. The good thing is that our Constitution provides that every person has the right to the highest attainable standard of health, which includes the right to healthcare services, including reproductive healthcare. What I would encourage is prevention which is better than cure, since we now have people with fistula. So, to prevent this fistula, it is good to ensure that our young people are made aware and educated on how to understand this condition and other reproductive health conditions. It is important to disclose the problem than keeping it to themselves and suffering in silence. I have said prevention is better than cure and to prevent this, it is good to educate our girls and also young men on how to wait longer before they have children. This one is trying to aid child marriages and early pregnancies. This will go a long way in ensuring that this disease does not affect young girls and young mothers. Understanding how to prevent fistula will help them. For those people who get it, they will talk about it and they will be attended to in good time because information is power. We also know that rape cases can be a cause of such a disease. Our girls and young men should also be assisted on how to actually try to avoid such things. Treatment in our public hospitals should be made free especially for reproductive health diseases. Mostly, this disease affects women in the rural areas and most of the time these people have no money, no employment and no knowledge. So, if free treatment is introduced for such diseases in public hospitals and then nurses and doctors are properly trained in this area, it will go a long way in preventing and treating fistula disease. With those remarks, I support the Motion. Thank you."
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