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    "id": 928660,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ali",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, declaring cancer a national disaster is also another issue. Hopefully, if it is declared a national disaster, then the Government will move into action. Also, the Ministry concerned and multi-sectoral departments will come together and try to do something. We would want that to come up so that, at least, if not anything else, the national Government will develop county centres and get some people to be properly trained. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, every profession wants to restrict the number of people who are in that profession so that they enjoy. This does not only apply to the medical profession; the legal profession is doing the same. You know what they are doing to students at the Kenya School of Law (KSL); where out of 2,000 or 3,000 students, only about 200 pass, and the others fail for whatever reasons. Even in the medical profession, those things exist. It used to be the pediatricians, surgeons and gynecologists before that. They wanted to reduce the number of doctors so that their practice could not be affected, and so that they could get enough loot. Oncology is now becoming the in-thing, and they are restricting the numbers. We are told that most of them are here in Nairobi. Kisumu County has one, Mombasa two, Nakuru three, Nyeri one and Meru has one too. Out of the 47 counties, possibly, only five counties have oncologists, yet cancer is a killer everywhere. We, therefore, need to train"
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