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    "id": 926994,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
        "slug": "kipchumba-murkomen"
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    "content": "about health insurance in this country, we need to move the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) programme to a level where we can treat everybody who is going through any kind of disease, including cancer. Since the cost of treating cancer is so high, most of the patients go through pain and suffering. I must confess that I feared to go and see my friend, the late Governor Joyce Laboso in hospital because the pain and suffering she went through in the last few days was unbearable. I was there two days before she passed on and she was in indescribable pain. Not just her. Cancer patients and their families go through a lot of pain and suffering. Just imagine a person going for treatment in London, India and then she comes back to the country by air. It was terrible for Gov. Dr. Laboso and her husband. We must make a little heaven down here. The only way as leaders we can make a little heaven down here is to guarantee our people universal healthcare. The best way to do so, in my opinion, is to ensure that once we give the equipment to every county, we must move a step further and make universal healthcare and insurance accessible to every citizen. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we must also have proper research. What is the point of having universities in this country that have fantastic professors and ecologists if there is no link between them and the society? We waited until we had doctors from India for them to treat certain diseases in certain parts of the country that were usually ignored, for example, skin cancers among others. Is it possible for us in leadership, through the universal healthcare in the national Government’s Big Four Agenda to move the practice of medicine from the university and medical centres to the rural level? As Sen. Kangata said, most people here do medical camps. Is it possible to have that kind of practice in the local level? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know of a certain lady in my county whose son I employed and kept saying that they used traditional medicine to treat cancer. Unbelievably, that is about five years ago and his mother is still alive. He took local medicine and treatment. Is there a way to go beyond this argument that cancer treatment and medicine is expensive? As Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve said, it becomes a mechanism for profiteering. Also can people be given honest answers, for example, if they do not do chemotherapy they will live for long than to precipitate with certain treatments or surgeries? This information must be put in public. We are getting confused as citizens. When such situations occur, social media and"
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