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    "id": 929293,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/929293/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "I am glad that she is asking this House to compel the Executive or Ministries and our academia to come together and set up the policies and the right framework so that we get it right and make it sustainable as well. Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not want to go over the whole of it because Sen. Pareno has really outlined the benefits, cure, prevention, education, research and evaluation. She also mentioned that the opportunity we have is that our coverage of internet is quite high but therein lies the problem. As somebody who is in the ICT space, I am aware that the 83 per cent coverage is not very factual. It looks at the number of users as opposed to the area of coverage. It is a population-based percentage which means that if we have 60 per cent of the people in Kenya living in Nairobi, we can almost say we have covered the entire country. When you look at the geographic-based percentage, it is very low in the parts of the geographic locations that we are looking at for telemedicine. If it is Nairobi-based in terms of the internet coverage, they already have access to - within reasonable kilometers - Mbagathi District Hospital or Kenyatta National Hospital. However, when we look at the geographic coverage, the percentages then drastically fall. That is one area that will be a major challenge to our ambitions for telemedicine, but that is precisely the reason why with the right policies in place, we should then say our percentage coverage should be based on the geographic coverage. This is because telemedicine is mostly beneficial to the hard to reach areas which at the same time do not have the telecommunications coverage that we need to do the telemedicine. This is an opportunity for us to do this in terms of making sure that we---"
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