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    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Peters Owino",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. A lot of information has been given so I will not go that line but I want to highlight some things which we have as assets in this country and we are not using them. There is a policy paper called community strategies. This is a paper that elaborates how we should do our primary health care. As I congratulate Hon. Ruweida, screening comes out of education. When people are aware, they will yield to be screened. All this is in the strategy paper for community health. It is clear that the most effective point of health intervention is a household. Each community health worker where they are well structured and functioning oversees about 50 households. So they know who may be having frequent urination, thirst, weight, fatigue — all these symptoms of diabetes. If we can resource community health workers - I have a Bill on this coming up and I hope Members will support it - these people will not just work as volunteers. The problem we have in this House is that we are investing in wrong strategies and priorities. Instead of putting money in cost-effective priorities where the Government is going to save money, we use money in higher ends which I am going to allude to in a few minutes. We have Level 1 which is the household level; Level 2 which is a dispensary; and Level 3 which is a health centre. If resourced well, as asked by Hon. Ruweida, most of the diabetes problems will be well managed right there. Right now we have amputations going on in households, and sometimes of a breadwinner and that house plunges into poverty. A case that 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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