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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Eseli",
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "Health sits down with the Mover of the Bill, hon. Kaino. Probably, we can even go on a retreat to look at this, so that we can harmonize and make it very effective. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I believe that setting up a malaria Prevention and Control Institute would be very good because we will be able to coordinate all these activities of Malaria control, be it use of mosquito nets or in-house spraying of residual insecticides. By the way, I brought a Motion here in early 2008, which was unanimously passed by the House; that the mainstay of malaria control in this country should become in-house spraying of residual insecticides. However, that has not been effected by the Ministry. It is still being used selectively, which is also very dangerous. This is because when you do selective in-house spraying then you are encouraging resistance to develop among those mosquitoes. So, that kind of haphazard implementation of that Motion is not right. In fact, I am contemplating requesting the Committee on Implementation to follow up the matter with the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, to find out how far they have gone with this problem. But with the setting up of a malaria Prevention and Control Institute, we would be able to coordinate all these activities of the research institute, Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, Ministry of Roads and any Ministry that is involved, where breeding of mosquitoes and transmission of malaria could be increased. This is because when all these activities are coordinated under one roof, we are bound to see results. Then when everything is under one roof, we will be able to sieve out the wheat from the chaff because it is sad to report that many researchers in this world have attained PhDs on malaria research while thousands and millions of children in Africa continue dying from malaria. So, it has become big business even for academia to achieve PhDs at the expense of our children. We want everything to be put under an institute so that we are also able to co-ordinate. Is it worth undertaking a research that is going to be useful to us or is it just for the purpose of having a PhD before their names? If it is a question of having a PhD after their names, this institute will be able to control that."
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