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    "id": 943844,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": ".: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion on community health workers because it is important. In fact, had I seen it in advance, I would have suggested to Sen. Nyamunga that we include a paragraph to say that all county governments must give some recognition to all the county community health workers. This is because part of the problem in the community health workers framework is that they are never recognised. There are 3,200 community health workers in Kisumu County alone. It is possible that in every other county, including small ones, there are more than 3,000 health workers. I have the statistics for Kisumu County and they have roughly about 800 nurses. We have Kisumu, Machakos, Nyeri and Isiolo counties where piloting of the UHC is being done. They have suffered the problem of too many people looking for assistance from nurses or visiting hospitals there. Hon. Senators have said that in truncating healthcare, not everybody who is unwell goes to hospital or not everybody who feels unwell should go to hospital. Community health workers across the counties, particularly the primary healthcare givers who Sen. Faki called wakunga help mothers deliver babies in the villages. I watched a video on marginalisation policy in Baringo County. In that county, there is a hospital under a huge tree where wakunga, as put by Sen. Faki, help mothers deliver babies. They do not have tools and---"
}