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    "id": 943873,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "What are we doing with this nyumba kumi other than security because this initiative is already in place? Can they be included in this exercise so that they are trained and are able to give more services than they are already giving and be recognized? Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the issue of crime, it is known that if you have a healthy nation then you end up having a better nation in terms of educational standards, crime rates will go down. Also, the ability to work and life expectancy will improve with these kinds of interventions. If you have health workers right at the villages with our people, the intervention will be very fast. Some of us come from very vast lands like Kajiado County where the nearest clinic is almost 100 kilometres away. If these health workers are engaged, given support and recognised, the interventions to our people in terms of health, sanitation, environment and crime will be addressed because the services will be nearer to our people. On emergency services, all the time we talk about poverty and hunger. In the middle of the year, we were talking about hunger; now we are talking about floods. These people are so handy in terms of interventions when it comes to disasters. How I wish that in this programme we would train and recognized some of these people that are already offering services to the community and equip them with the necessary skills to be able to operate during these disasters. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to talk about two people that I have had an encounter with. One is a lady in my village called Mama Sankei but her real name is Keio Ng’ele. This lady is a full time, free service midwife. She goes round the village and is able to determine whether the unborn child is in a breach position. She is able to turn that child to the right position before the mother can give birth. I once asked her what people do to appreciate her. She said that the Government only gives her gloves. The only intervention she was proud of is that she is able to do her midwifery work - which is a free service to the community - with the help of gloves from the Government. How I wish that this lady is recognized and given more than those gloves. She should be given training, appreciation and something she can be proud of. For example, she can be given a certificate or some pay to enable her to attend to these people. She is always all over. Every other day, we hear that she has been called to a certain home to attend to a lady who has had difficulties with child birth. She intervenes, but when she is not able to handle it, she advises that the expectant mother be taken to the nearest hospital. However, she has been able to handle most of the cases and detect what the problem is with regard to the unborn child. The other recognition goes to an old man known as ole Kujita - I am sure that Sen. Mary Seneta knows him. Ole Kujita is somebody whom we talk of in the entire Kajiado County. If you get a fracture, ole Kujita will fix it. The only thing you will do is to go to the hospital to be given some antibiotics and painkillers. How I wish that some of these gentlemen can be recognized back in the villages. I heard of a case where somebody who was involved in an accident was taken to hospital and told that his leg was supposed to be amputated. That leg was never amputated because that person opted to be treated by Ole Kujita who was able to fix it. We saw this happen with our own eyes. Somebody might think that this is fiction, but I 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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