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"content": "beard anywhere. Consequently, the psychological trauma alone will kill you. We must, therefore, find better ways of handling these diseases. After the cigarette smoking fright that we used to give to people, then came the most common cancer, which was hitting women’s breasts. These were the most common cancers you would hear about, and we used to take them to hospital. If it was detected early, the breasts were cut off and some lived for a very long time. However, it is now very difficult to tell. When I saw our distinguished late colleague, hon. Ken Okoth, in Paris, he looked very strong and visibly healthy. He told me that he was suffering from cancer, and it had been detected too late. At what level do we start detecting it? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have heard my colleague, Sen. Farhiya, talking about equipping hospitals. The psyche in this country must change. If you look at the counties today, every governor is rushing to put brick and mortar for huge buildings – five or six storey – that will be our hospitals. A treatment centre is not the building; It is equipment, medicine, and above all, the personnel. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you go to Gaddafi’s Libya, where they were enjoying one of the best medical care in Africa; or to Cuba today, forget about how America bastardized Fidel Castro--- Fidel Castro became the President of Cuba when their life expectancy was 39 years. He left Cuba with a life expectancy of 89 years. That was not because they have built huge structures as hospitals, but because they have invested in human capital. Cuba is a small country with about 11 million people, but it exports 58,000 doctors to Brazil, which is a country with 200 million people. All this is possible because they have invested in human capital. If you go to Cuba, you will find that they have eliminated malaria. Cuba is a tropical country, but there is no malaria at all; and nobody dies of malaria there. Cuba is sending doctors to Kenya, which has a population of about 50 million and they have a population of 11 million people. We are now enjoying the services of Cuban doctors. There are 5,000 Cuban doctors in Tanzania, 45,000 in Angola, and 15,000 in Argentina. In America, every hospital has Cuban doctors. If Cuba can do so much with so little, how come Kenya cannot do this, yet we have now been independent for almost 60 years? Even the very noble idea the President brought, on the leasing of medical equipment, has now turned into a scandal. We are taking public funds to pursue a very noble cause, yet we let charlatans, profiteers and thieves sneak in. They turn it into a business venture for making money and not helping the people. All the money that has been sank into this scheme is not helping anybody. We were told they were bringing the equipment to the rural hospitals for screening and for helping wananchi . If one goes to some places, they brought containers of equipment and put them there for six years. We are still paying for them, yet nobody has opened them."
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