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    "id": 944450,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/944450/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Nyamunga",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 738,
        "legal_name": "Rose Nyamunga Ogendo",
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    "content": "County Government of Kisumu has started giving out some stipend to community health workers. It was done for three months and that was the end of it. If we want the President and the nation to succeed in matters health care, we must be serious with it. We are not going to develop our nation when we know that a sick person cannot do anything. If you gave me everything else and I am sick, I would not even be able to eat. When we talk about food security, manufacturing and any other agenda that the national Government may have, even the county governments should be very clear with the issues of community health workers. These are volunteers who work for free and are not trained. They walk long distances and they do not have enough knowledge. Anybody asking for knowledge for community health workers is not asking for too much. Anyone asking for means of transport for these workers is not asking for too much. If we have to make affordable healthcare accessible to all Kenyans, which is their right, we must do what it takes to show anybody that we are serious with it. The introduction of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) was a good initiative. However, most people got their cards, paid once and that was the end of it. I am not talking about what the county governments should be doing with the health care- that is their business- I am talking about a supplement. We must have a grassroots support for us to match the figures that I have already given. You cannot match the number of workers that we have compared to the needs that we have, it is not possible. I would like to urge this House to support this Motion and see how we can debate it and agree on the way forward. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to move. I would like to ask Sen. M. Kajwang’ to second."
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