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    "id": 927029,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "early stages. We have seen that even people with the best medical cover are not immune from the eventualities of this disease. I looked at the strategies put in place by the Ministry of Health and realised that they are all about control of diseases and not prevention. The names of those strategies are actually a misnomer. In fact, the strategy for cancer is called The Cancer Control Strategy, 2017-2022 and its priority is getting Computed Tomography (CT) scans, chemotherapy and radiotherapy machines. What is this obsession with buying stuff? Is it part of corruption where one wants to get a cut and move on? Those machines may not even be useful to the people. We have all been affected by cancer. My sister, Jillo, died of cancer at a very young age. I am sure that we can all talk of family members and friends who have succumbed to this disease. This is not about them but us. We need to look at prevention. This House should look at our regulatory systems such as the Pharmacy and Poisons Board and the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KeBS) to get to know what is happening there. My colleagues have talked of research. This is something that we should focus on, especially research on traditional ways of controlling this disease. We should also focus on traditional lifestyles that do not have risk factors. Cancer is the third leading cause of mortality in Kenya. It stands at 7 per cent. We need to look at how we can prevent it. I congratulate Sen. (Dr.) Ali for this Bill because it has created a conversation, though we must go beyond the conversation. We should get to actionable initiatives that can be measured in the life of this Parliament. I support this Bill because of its alignment to the Constitution and devolution, though we need to make sure that it leads to service delivery in the frontlines where our people live and work. The question is: what services are those that need to be taken to the counties? I do not think that they are the machines that are being thrown in the counties. It must go beyond those machines to things that we can touch and measure. We have to make sure that the lives of Kenyans and our colleagues, who we have honoured here today, do not go in vain. I support."
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