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    "id": 962510,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
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        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": "how long those services have been in the hands of counties and ask ourselves whether they have the capacity or whether we have capacitated them to manage health services. When we talk about early cancer screening, do our 47 counties have the capability and capacity to provide those screening services? As a House, are we providing them with enough budgetary resources so that they can provide the services we are recommending? We have made many recommendations through such Motions in this House. Most of them are passed, but they are not implemented. They are not given any budgetary allocation and so, they go down to the dustbins. Therefore, for this particular area of health, we need to act differently. As a country, we need to review and relook at what we have given our counties to expect them to work. We need to ask ourselves if we have given them enough resources to handle that. In most counties, health services have deteriorated. The counties talk about resources in terms of budgetary allocation and human capacity. That is why I am saying that it is high time we removed politics from those important services. We need to look at the capacity that our counties have in order to manage health services. If they are not capacitated, it is high time we relooked at our Constitution, centralised health services and provided enough budgetary allocations. We should not blame counties because I believe we have not given them enough resources in that particular area. As we focus on health services, it is high time we looked at the best way of management by moving those services from the counties and centralising them. The House should also focus on this issue and add resources so that all the diseases are detected at an early stage to prevent the menace that we are in. I want to over-emphasise again that we need to relook at creation of awareness, especially in early childhood stages in our schools. In secondary schools, our children transit from one stage to another and they are involved in vices like smoking, having many sexual partners and using contraceptives over a long period of time. Our children should be informed that the moment they start indulging themselves in sexual activities at early stages, they are registering chances of getting some of those diseases, including cervical cancer. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support and urge that this Motion be amended to include other types of cancers like prostate cancer. Also, it should relook at the issue of creation of awareness in addition to the proposed vaccine for HPV. Most of the Motions that we discuss, especially on Wednesdays, are important. But I do not see much implementation. For the two years that I have been around, I have seen many Motions being discussed, but I have not seen any of them being implemented over this period. So, I urge the Committee on Implementation to start being serious and have some of these Motions taken up by the relevant ministries for implementation. I thank my colleague Hon. Tum for bringing this Motion and I support."
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