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    "id": 926988,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kang’ata",
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        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "came up with sophisticated interventions to ensure that our people do not die from the new non-communicable diseases. There are several interventions that this country can undertake. I propose that we teach our people to eat healthy food. It is said that we are as healthy as what we eat. Traditionally, people used to eat foodstuff such arrow roots, sweet potatoes and others. They used to drink porridge. These days we drink sodas and eat processed foods. Science has been able to prove that consumption of such foodstuff is one of the many causes of cancer. I would urge our people to revert back to what we call African roots and culture, particularly with regard to consumption of natural food. It is what made our forefathers to live for long and to live a healthy life as opposed to the current trend where people are now consuming sugary and processed foods which are not quite healthy. This is one of the causes of cancer. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we would urge our counties to continue diagnosing. Early detection of cancer can assist in ensuring that we do more intervention. Personally, I have been conducting free medical camps in Murang’a County without any support from the Government or any donor. I usually save some of the little money that we are paid here in the Senate, and use it to conduct medical camps. For instance, I will be holding a medical camp on 17th August, this year. One of the services that I will render in that camp is free cancer screening. The idea of that is to ensure that we screen our people for free and do a Pap Smear to check cervical cancer for our women. We will also conduct physical examination of breast cancer so that we can do better intervention. This amendment by our brother can assist in that endeavour to raise public awareness that there are simple ways of checking whether you have cancer. For instance, one can go to our clinics and do diagnosis of cancer. I support that amendment to the extent that maybe through my endeavours, private donors and public interventions we can continue making our people knowledgeable on issues concerning cancer. The third intervention which is captured in this Bill is the one that is aimed at ensuring our Level Three and Level Four hospitals can become cancer centres. Currently, I have seen those interventions here in Nairobi. They tend to be quite expensive. However, the poor people in this country cannot come all the way to Nairobi or go to referral hospitals to get good cancer services. I hope this proposal will devolve those curative interventions at the grassroots level. For instance, in Murang’a County, I would want to hear that a person from Mathioya Constituency, Kangema Constituency and Maragua in Makuyu can access these cancer, curative or intervention measures there. I now want to talk about the two leaders who passed away. I take this opportunity on behalf of myself, family and the people of Murang’a to County express grief for the loss of the two leaders. I knew them at a personal level by virtue that I was a Member of the National Assembly between the years 2013 and 2017. At that time, those two leaders were also serving in the Eleventh Parliament in the National Assembly. I knew the then Deputy Speaker, Dr. Joyce Laboso as a very good person, amiable and very selfless. The people of Bomet will surely miss her. Let me also take this opportunity to eulogize my personal friend, Hon. Ken Okoth. He was a very good friend of mine and was a fairly young person. We have lost a The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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