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    "id": 882688,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/882688/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisauni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mbogo Ali",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13383,
        "legal_name": "Ali Menza Mbogo",
        "slug": "ali-menza-mbogo"
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    "content": "daily, you will find it is more of one area and one area being left out. I am a Muslim and my religion teaches me that when you want to eat, you have to make sure what you take in your stomach is divided in three options. One portion of the stomach has to take the food. Another portion has to be left for air and the other for liquids. However, most of the time we end up taking the entire space of the stomach and this ends up contributing to many other related diseases because of that composition. If you remember, many years ago, HIV and AIDS was a serious disease in this country that made the Government and other stakeholders come up with serious policies and programmes to prevent it. Down the line, you will find that we have managed to bring HIV and AIDS to some acceptable levels. This was achieved through the various programmes and policies including testing and screening. Today when you walk around, you will find there are so many free testing centres for HIV. There are so many advertisements out there inviting people to come for free testing and screening of HIV. The same needs to be done for these other lifestyle diseases like diabetes, cancer and others, whereby our people can go out there and they are tested for free so that they can know their health status at any one time. Out of these programmes, we came up with so many community health workers who are volunteers at the village level. These community health workers do a very important and critical job in educating our people about the health related matters. However, we need to go a step further because what these community health workers have been trained in is mostly on HIV and AIDS and related diseases. However, cancer, diabetes and high blood pressure have been left out and they do not have expertise on that angle. It is important for the Government to come up with policies whereby we can have refresher courses or we can have these community health workers being taken through that training so that they can go back to the village level and educate our people to be prepared for such an eventuality. We even need to go a step further and have our community health workers to be visiting our schools. We need to start early at the Early Childhood Development (ECD) levels and the primary level whereby our pupils can be trained on cultures and diets. Here we do not only depend on the teachers but we need the experts. The experts could be the community health workers or the doctors at the sub-county level visiting these schools and training our sons and daughters on good eating habits, good diets and cultures. I want to give a practical example. Last year, I had an education walk in my constituency and I invited so many students from the constituency. When we were doing this walk, on the way, one of the pupils collapsed and because of our bad cultures in our area where we believe in"
}