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    "id": 971363,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to comment on the Statement by the Chairperson of the Committee of Health. Let me put it on record that I am one of the pioneers of the dialysis centres in this country. We set up the first dialysis machines at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). That time, it became extremely difficulty to treat patients who had developed chronical renal failure. Therefore, at their end stage of renal failure, they could not survive. We were also the first group with the late Prof. Nelson Awuor to set up the first kidney transplant of Baby Koko who survived at that time. That was the first primary function that we did during that period of time. Having said so, there are several ways and pathways through which somebody can develop kidney failure. One, is out of infection at early childhood. The common throat infections which go untreated eventually bite the kidney. One develops progressive kidney disease, either at acute stage called acute nephritis or progressively, it affects part of the kidney or just a section of the kidney which is called focal sclerosis. It may also affect the entire system of the kidney, the membrane or the blood supply on the membrane which we call membrane proderative disease. In other words, it is progressive. It ends in end stage renal disease where there is fibrosis of the kidney. Therefore, the kidney fails to be a function of filtering the extraneous material that we accumulate in the body. Another one may be through what we call auto-immune from the allergic reactions that happen. Others are as a result of other tropical diseases. For instance, when I was doing the research during the irrigation schemes in Ukambani, because of the dams that have been created like the Kiambere Water Dam, one of the biggest problems that we came across was the Bilharzia, what we call Schistosomiasis. People were developing renal failure as a result of the occupational hazards that are attendant with the irrigation"
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