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    "id": 882651,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/882651/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bomachoge Borabu, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Zadoc Ogutu",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13302,
        "legal_name": "Zadoc Abel Ogutu",
        "slug": "zadoc-abel-ogutu-2"
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    "content": "Diabetes is also very expensive in terms of dietary requirements. I want to imagine that screening and testing centres will have cheap and relevant foodstuffs. We know that a diabetic person needs to eat well. A diabetic person needs to eat specific foods and they might not be easily available in the rural areas. The diet in the rural areas is normally simple. People have to remain heathy, especially those who are affected by diabetes and those who are potential recruits. Diabetes has tremendously increased because of new lifestyles. It has increased because of imported diets that we are now being exposed to. It has also increased because of lack of screening that can prepare people to undertake necessary precaution to avoid being diabetic. I therefore suggest that as we engage with the agenda under Universal Health Care (UHC), we should think of how we can reach those who have been already affected by diabetes, those who are potential candidates for diabetes, but also to provide resources in our schools and institutions so that people can easily access the facilities for testing and screening of diabetes. The most crucial part of diabetes for those who are affected is monitoring it. You will find that it will be very difficult for somebody from the rural areas to go all the way to sub-county and county clinics for screening and testing. I would recommend that as we engage in this discussion, we allocate funds that can introduce small kiosks to cater for monitoring of diabetic cases and even of blood pressure which are closely related with diabetes. This will be an opportunity to create jobs but it will also be an opportunity to have a healthy population and to reduce the most vulnerable groups from losing their lives. So, I want to suggest that as we engage in this discussion, let us all agree that diabetes is a serious problem right now in this country and we need to access facilities to those who are affected and those who are vulnerable. But more importantly, we need to enhance monitoring of diabetes."
}