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    "id": 90098,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker Sir, I beg to move that the Speaker do now leave the Chair to enable me to initiate debate on Vote 11 - Ministry of Medical Services. Mr. Speaker, Sir, health is now worldly recognized as a basic human right. Further, good health defined in terms of state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing is a prerequisite for socio-economic development of the country. The importance of health is also reflected in specific measurable targets declared at the UN Millennium Declaration of September 2000. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent a vision based on an internationally agreed set of time-bound goals for reducing extreme poverty, extending gender equality and advancing opportunities for health and education. It is in that regard that in the year 2000, when the Government passed the Economic Recovery Strategy (ERS) for wealth and employment creation, the Government committed itself to a policy whose key pillars were: Improving health infrastructure, strengthening regulatory agencies in the Ministry, strengthening and streamlining the supply chain mechanism and improving health financing; incorporating therein a competent and professional workforce that can deliver good health services."
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