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    "id": 915719,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/915719/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I thank you for giving me the opportunity. I thank the Departmental Committee on Health for this Report. I also do support the recommendations of the Committee. I wish to indicate that Article 43 of our Constitution affirms the right to the highest attainable standard of health which is also provided in conventions that we have ratified. Kenya is also a signatory to the Abuja Declaration that calls on member States to commit 15 per cent of their respective budgets to health. We have not yet attained that, which is one of the reasons we are facing the challenges that Members are referring to. I wish to indicate that my constituency has one of the highest mortality rates in the country and one of the lowest life expectancy rates at 37 years. As we speak, just to give you an example, this weekend alone, we are burying more than 23 persons in my constituency. That is something that should be considered a national crisis. It is not occasional; it is frequent. It is not even frequent, it is actually the norm."
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