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    "id": 943893,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/943893/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
    },
    "content": "Today, we pride ourselves of being techno savvy. We use M-Pesa with much abandon. We transfer millions and billions of shillings through M-Pesa and a mother who does not know how to handle technology can send money to the daughter or the son using M-Pesa. Therefore, we can use our smartphones to monitor and evaluate the disease process and the health standards in our community. We can then reduce the distances and clerkship work where the clerk has to ask for the patient’s name, village and all that. These technology tools can also help us monitor blood pressure within seconds. All one needs to do is to put a puff on the pulse of the finger then read the blood pressure without the cumbersome business of putting around the calf and testing it physically. One can also test their temperature by simply putting something on their forehead rather than putting the thermometer under their armpit and waiting for it to read their temperature. These things are technically connected with each other. Once you put it there, it registers the temperature and puts it in the record of that patient because it is all easily recorded. Some of the community health workers can interpret the information and give first aid or first line of treatment for patients. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we need to spend more time on preventive and promotive health because that is the only way we can reduce the burden of disease in this country. We should use the community health workers because they are plenty and they have been trained. They should be oriented for specific skills so that when a health worker goes to monitor nutrition, they will do so by reaching many people in one single screen. What do we do with those who have difficulties in interpreting the results that they find at primary healthcare centres like dispensaries or health centres? We can have them transmit electronically that information to a county hospital where certain interpretations are done. Transmission of information may not be done by anybody because once they are familiar with gadgets, they can transmit it without any difficulty. The only way we can reduce the disease burden is to strictly adhere to the principles of the management of these individuals so that they deliver quality services and quality healthcare. This way, the UHC becomes a reality when we espouse some of these basic principles. We do not have to spend so much money. With those few remarks, I support this Motion and congratulate Sen. Nyamunga for bringing it on board. We need to move forward and do more because we can achieve much with little effort."
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