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    "content": "I am very sorry, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Earlier on we had a Madam Speaker on the Chair. I apologise, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I still have her in my mind by thinking that she is still sitting there. The other thing is awareness creation. One of the biggest challenges that causes children to have diabetes pretty early is parents feeding them with the wrong kind of foods, especially in urban centres where we overfeed them with French fries and processed foods like sausages and bacon. We think that it is very good thing. Although that is what children want, it takes upon us as parents to make conscious decisions and realise that these processed foods contribute to unhealthy lifestyles and, therefore, diseases in our children at pretty early ages. We need a holistic approach by Government to ensure that prevention happens. We have a very good structure at the community level in the community health workers, who in my view, are grossly underutilised. Community health workers go door to door checking on sick people especially the very old and poor who cannot go to hospital and who do not have the energy or cannot afford the money to move from where they live to a nearest hospital. We need to empower the community health workers, pay them well and make them the people who move from one homestead to another checking on patients, making sure that people are tested, creating awareness and ensuring they eat well so that we prevent deaths caused by these diseases. As Hon. Maanzo said, it is just about how you manage the disease once you have it. It should not lead to death. We know that when diabetes is not well taken care of, it leads to kidney failure. We know the number of harambees we do every week to take care of patients who need kidney transplants and we know the number of Kenyans going to India every day for kidney transplants. Therefore, there is obviously need for a serious policy decision made by Government to take care of the disease and come up with serious intervention measures all the way from the grassroots to the top to take care of this issue. With those few remarks, I beg to support. I thank my sister, Hon. Ruweida for finding it fit to bring this important Motion."
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