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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
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    "content": "from the start on how to take care of people with these disorders. The Health Act has looked at ways of solving these diseases. Health is cascading to the counties, and a lot is being done to sort out the health care processes in many counties. As they do that, we can have community health workers identify the propensity factors that bring these diseases and address them early so as to reduce them. However, that is not what happens. Therefore, Madam Temporary Speaker, it is important to support the community health workers. Sen. Nyamunga has a Motion on community health workers and there is a Bill coming up on the Floor of this House on community health work. A country is as good and as productive as the workmanship that it produces. Some of the people who suffer from these diseases are brilliant and very innovative, and they can come up with many ideas. What causes these diseases and how can that be connected with policy? Some of these diseases are genetic disorders. This Motion talks of enabling the caregivers, but we can also help them understand the causes of those diseases. We can help them know how those diseases can be handled or prevented. We have genetic diseases that can be identified early if two partners get tested in advance. People can be given some advice based on their genetic background. The doctor can tell them the A and B factors that can make them have a child with a particular disorder. One way of avoiding those genetic disorders and genetic circumstances is by mentioning them over and over again. Some of these disorders come from simple infections, such as bacterial or viral infections. Other disorder diseases have to do with lifestyle and environmental health problems. The policy should then look at ways of encouraging good environmental health situations, such as clean water, properly processed food, making sure that the foods do not contain a lot of chemicals, and such things. Malnutrition is also key. The other causes of these disorders are brain injury, accidents, medical processes, spinal cord injuries, nerve injuries and gluten sensitivity. The lives of people who have mortar and neurological disorders become extremely difficult. One can have mortar disorder, which affects the movement; and neurological disorder. However, this Motion talks about both mortar and neurological disorders. Therefore, we are talking about people who are facing a difficult situation. When one suffers from medical conditions such as malaria, flu or cold, they can go and get medicine. However, these disorders are long term and need a lot of care. Most of the caregivers tend to be relatives or somebody who comes on board, and they are rarely trained. In fact, most of the caregivers tend to tell the patients, “You are pretending. Do you want to say that you cannot move or you do anything for yourself? Do you have to urinate on yourself?” They do not realise that the person cannot perform some of those functions on their own. Therefore, we need to create a discourse on how to take these people into consideration. Most of these disorders are connected to psychiatric problems. Most of the patients cannot move because they have nerve problems, and that affects their social life. Therefore, they end up having mood disorders and begin to think that people do not care about them. They compound their situation with anxiety disorders and levels of paranoia, where they imagine things happening or imagine that they are going to be attacked. They 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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