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    "id": 882650,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bomachoge Borabu, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Zadoc Ogutu",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Zadoc Abel Ogutu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to take this chance to contribute to this noble Motion that comes at a time when the nation of Kenya has health as one of its four pillars. Therefore, it is an opportunity that we need to seize and see how best we can engage ourselves to make sure that the tenets of health are well captured in the programmes that are going to be implemented. We are talking of diabetes which has been described as a slow killer, but it is now being seen as one of the most serious killers in this country. I want to talk from the perspective of my Gusii community where diabetes has become very rampant with people dying immediately after being diagnosed. Indeed, the disease has gone too far. The Motion in discussion is that we want to improve our testing, screening and also the treatment of diabetes. Why do we need to do all these things? In most cases, people walk thinking they are heathy until the day they are diagnosed to be diabetic. It is normally very late then. We want to limit the number of people who are joining the diabetic club. So, we need good screening in various centres that are accessible to our populations. I want to look at this screening in terms of involving institutions like Parliament. People find it hard to walk to health centres to look for facilities. If the screening facilities can be inbuilt within the settlements and market centres, people would find it easier to access them. We are also looking at an opportunity that we are now experiencing as a nation. The Government has embarked on improving the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) because it is going to enable patients access those facilities we are talking about here. We need to put the facilities in strategic places where they can easily be accessed. The population that is affected comprises of people who have retired and people who live in rural areas who cannot afford to do screening of diabetes. We want to assume that now that we have NHIF cards, it will be easier for anybody to access these facilities should they be within reach. 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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