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    "id": 98686,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kaino",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 32,
        "legal_name": "Boaz Kipchumba Kaino",
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    "content": "The long title of the Act indicates that the Act was enacted to enable health authorities to take measures for prevention of malaria. With this primary objective, the Act then goes ahead to deal with specific action that health authorities may take in order to prevent malaria. Such actions include construction and maintenance of drainage. This is the breeding place of mosquitoes. It is also aimed at encouraging cutting of grass. Those were the specifics of the Act of 1929. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Bill seeks to prohibit certain actions by individuals if such actions would jeopardize the work of health institutions. This includes building or maintaining dams. We have dams everywhere nowadays for irrigation and yet we have no measures in place to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes. It is paramount when we build dams in every constituency to come up with measures to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes. Otherwise the people who are supposed to benefit from the dams will spend most of their time in hospital beds because of malaria infection. The malaria cycle will continue and the people who were to benefit from the fish ponds or irrigation dams will always find themselves in hospitals. We need to ensure that the health of people is taken care of."
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