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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise to second this Motion that has been brought to this House by Sen. Nyamunga. She has a rich experience because the last five years before she came to the Senate, she was working to promote the interests of women and gender matters not just in Kisumu County, but the whole nation in her capacity as a Women Representative in the National Assembly. When you work with or for women, you tend to understand a lot of the things that make us human. While growing up in the villages, there were certain ailments that were very difficult to treat in conventional hospitals. For example, growing up on the shores of Lake Victoria, one of the maladies that I suffered quite regularly were boils. It was very difficult to get lasting solutions for boils. However, we had old men and women, mostly women, who knew the right herbal remedy to apply. There was this old lady who would even apply a co-web to the boils with some medication and the boil would pop. Before colonialism, Africans had means and ways of making sure that maladies and diseases were controlled. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is not the conventional doctors and nurses that we have today who will ensure that Kenyans are healthy. We must build another structure underneath the doctors, clinical officers, nurses and other formal healthcare workers and ensure that community health workers are also part of our structure in the delivery of health care. 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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