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    "id": 882719,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyatike, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Tom Odege",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Mboya Odege",
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    "content": "Let us re-examine the health system which we have in the country currently as being managed by the county governments. I can authoritatively tell this House today that we are failing as a country when it comes to the management of diabetes, hypertension and cancer. All these diseases have made our people to suffer. We intervene very late. We cannot afford early intervention because of the resources we have in this country. It is high time we looked at our health system. If all these diseases cannot be contained at the earliest time possible, we need to come and review the current Act of Parliament and separate the three key killer diseases in this country. Those diseases should be managed by the national Government. Look at what is available in the dispensary nearest your home. You will agree with me that even those people who live around that dispensary do not have faith in that dispensary because many times when they go there they do not get what they want. So, this should be a wakeup call to the county governments. If they cannot manage the three diseases I have mentioned, as the national government we need to come out very strongly because we cannot sit back and see our people die because of diseases which we can avoid. Look at the situation of diabetes today. We are talking of a half a million people who are affected, but the reality, and I 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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