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    "id": 882607,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/882607/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 135,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Igembe Central, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1574,
        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
        "slug": "cyprian-kubai-iringo"
    },
    "content": "I do not see why as a Government, we can pitch tents in markets to give people voting cards but we cannot pitch tents in markets to request people to be tested for these diseases. We keep talking of medical camps. Once you go to a village, out of 100 people, five are diagnosed with cancer and from there things are left until those people go to their graves because the Government does nothing. It is high time we invested in the insurance of our people through the Government. When somebody is affected by these chronic diseases, the Government should step in to save that life and, more so, to cater for the expenses. Once cancer afflicts a person, it will affect the whole family, clan and community at large. There will be fundraisings left, right and centre; cows will be sold; businesses will fail to perform; and s hambas will be sold but the person will die. You lose the person and property. It is high time we invested in our people through an insurance programme whereby if one is accidentally affected by this disease, then the Government can step in. If early testing is done and the disease is discovered, it can be managed. We shall save lives and also save the properties which could have been lost."
}