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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Eseli",
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "climate change. Now, with those challenges coming on, then we need an institute that can actually co-ordinate all these activities of malaria control taking into account the climate change and all those issues that are also encouraging the increase in malaria transmission. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to end by stating that the level of malaria in our country is too high and it is leading to high mortality – that is high death rate of our under five years children, leave alone women who are expectant who we are also losing to malaria. Also, those expectant mothers are also losing their unborn babies from malaria as one of the main causes of abortion in this country. Despite what the churches believe that it is the clause in the Constitution that is going to encourage abortion, it is malaria that causes most of the abortions in this country. I hope that we will allay the fears of the clergy who fear that that clause in the Constitution is going to encourage abortion. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if we are able to control malaria, we will be able to save this country billions of shillings which we are directing towards treatment and other preventive measures which as I have explained, might be ineffective on their own. So, this Bill is long overdue and I am sure with an institute - like the motion we passed earlier on, the Government would have taken it up and given us results. We are very aware that now we cannot use DDT much in the world. We, being a horticultural producing country, will not be encouraged to use DDT but there are very many other residual insecticides that can be used apart from DDT which have been used even in America. After Hurricane Katrina, the American Army released huge Hercules aircraft which were able to spray thousands of acres in a day using Dibrom which is a non-DDT substance that can actually eradicate mosquitoes. Probably that is one of the areas we will have to look at to be able to control malaria in this country because malaria is a vector borne disease. Being a vector borne disease, the only way to control it is to control the vector and in this case, the vector is malaria. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I believe when we pass this Bill after we have done the necessary amendments, it will be a Bill that eventually will revolutionalise the way we have been handling malaria in this country and despite what people think, when the level of malaria goes down, we will see the economic benefits trickling down to the common mwananchi . With those few remarks, I wish to second."
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