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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "I commend Sen. Pareno for coming up with this Motion. Article 26 of the Constitution says that everyone has a right to life. This teleconferencing is speaking to this constitutional right. Article 43 of the Constitution states that one has a right to attainable standards of health. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) No.3 talks of health and wellbeing. A healthy nation is a productive nation. There is need for us to interrogate this Motion. All organisations are now using technology, hence, there is need for us, as a country, to be techno savvy when it comes to healthcare. Technology is very important for it helps save time. The medical and human resources personnel at the county governments and national Government can communicate and that will enable them to have a seamless way of looking at things. Technology also saves time and money. The medics take an oath to save lives which means that they are well-meaning in their actions. It also means that they will train each other and share information for the purpose of saving lives. Teleconferencing will be a good way of doing that. Sen. Pareno should expand teleconferencing for us to talk about it from the county perspective, national perspective and international perspective. We have to broaden it to the international level because of emerging diseases. We are currently mourning our colleagues who succumbed to cancer but we also have many Kenyans who have succumbed to cancer. I am also a cancer survivor but I am not ready to die right now. I want to talk about these things until we get to stop cancer. I will use my case to explain the reason as to why teleconferencing should go beyond the county and national level. I was diagnosed with cancer in 2013 and I was to go through a radical surgery to save my limb. I thank God that my limb was saved. I cannot walk upright like everybody else but I am happy that I am able to drag it from one place to another. When I went to India for treatment, the orthopaedic oncologist who was assigned to me was given a heavy task because I was suffering from a type of cancer that they had never treated in adults. Most people who get bone cancer are children and the doctors find it easy to treat them. The doctor had a rough time handling my case because he had to import a customised prosthesis from Stanmore Implants Worldwide, London. The doctor said that he had never done such an operation but he had my two legs. I have used my case to show us the importance of teleconferencing. Teleconferencing can help medics and they can learn from each other. A doctor at the county level can consult fellow doctors. The oath that they took during graduation The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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