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    "id": 928990,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Siaya CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Christine Ombaka",
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        "legal_name": "Christine Oduor Ombaka",
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    "content": "check-up and so, the health sector must help us access health services on time to make them cheaper. Many people cannot even afford to be members of the national health system. Therefore, they do not have medical cards. In the village where we come from, people just come home and ask you for money for Panadol and other medicine. So, how about checking for cancer? It is definitely going to be very expensive. That is why the health sector or the Ministry of Health should be firm on this matter and ensure that health is not only devolved but also cheaper and accessible to many people. Health education is critical. We must educate ourselves; we must also educate our children in schools that, these are diseases that can affect them even as young as they are so that they know what to do and all that. It is the same on families. So, health education is very important. I thank Mhe. Tecla for this very timely Bill on cancer. Since we have already talked about cancer, I think we now need to put more energy in making this law become real. Once it becomes real, the health sector should take it up and run with it. Cancer is killing our people. It is also devastating. We are losing young people who are very brainy and useful to this country. We are losing them too early in life and yet we need them. As we keep on losing young people, it is part of the brain drain. We are losing brains: People like Ken Okoth, people like Collymore who passed away a month ago, people like Dr. Laboso and many more who have passed on because of cancer. It is because we really need to be aware. We need to take very good care of those who are ill instead of sitting around and feeling pitiful and causing more stress to them at the family level. I think even families should be encouraged to know how to treat or manage long-term illnesses that come as a result of cancer. Otherwise, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity. It is a very good Motion."
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