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    "id": 882706,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/882706/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Karachuonyo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adipo Okuome",
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        "legal_name": "Andrew Adipo Okuome",
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    "content": "On the treatment side, matters may be more complicated because we need experts for treatment. We can use community health workers and also try to use our dispensaries for screening purposes. Once the screening has been done and if it is still on the preliminary stages, community health workers can be told what to do to contain the situation and even eliminate it. As we speak, there are a number of injections given to infants when they are about four months old. That kind of preventive care should include diabetes so that it is checked early enough. I am sure if it is diagnosed, it will be easier to treat it than when it is discovered at a much later time in life. These are the kinds of things we need to contain the situation. I am talking about diabetes because that is what is in the Motion, otherwise the kind of screening I have in mind should include other diseases as well. If the Government takes care of that, then we will be okay because we will take care of it through screening. The good thing is that food and health are part of the Big Four Agenda. Those two are very important in controlling the disease and they are in the Big Four Agenda and because of that, I urge that steps are taken to include diabetes and perhaps other diseases which are preventable in the food and health component. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I do not want to repeat what others have said. I support the Motion."
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