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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Duale",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Livestock Development",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, coming to the national figures, today one of the leading diseases in this country is malaria. It is the leading cause of mobility and mortality in Kenya. If you look at our health sector percentage, how many out-patients go to our health facilities? We are talking of about 30 per cent of the people who go to hospital as out-patients doing so as a result of malaria. About 19 per cent of all admissions in health facilities, whether it is a dispensary, health centre or hospital, is as a result of malaria. Above all, 20 per cent of all the deaths of children under five years in this country are as a result of malaria. I want hon. Members to look at the figures. These figures should help the Government in bringing up policies to control and prevent malaria. Who are the vulnerable? The vulnerable groups in our society are the pregnant women and children under five years. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have a lot of reservations about this Bill at the Committee Stage because as we stand here today, we have the Malaria Control Division in the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation. We have the Kenya National Malaria Strategy Programme for the years 2009/2017. So, we are not saying that this country does not have strategies or that this country needs this Bill to move forward. No! That is why those strategies must be harmonized with this Bill. I mean, we should get out of our way, where a Member of Parliament does research and comes with a Bill. That is why as the Ministry for Livestock Development, we have the Animals Technicians Bill. We said that we need to bring a Bill that carries everything. So, at the Committee Stage, I want hon. Kaino to bring on board the National Malaria Strategy Programme of 2009/2017. He must work with the already existing institution which is the Division of Malaria Control at the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker Sir, malaria fatality rate in this country is about 6 to 7 per cent. Hon. Members were saying that we lose millions of hours in this country. To be specific, 170 million working days are lost due to Malaria. It is not even hours. The projection of our population of 2009 was about 40 million. Researchers are saying that 20 million Kenyans are exposed to malaria. I am sure that 20 million Kenyans are not exposed to tuberculosis or HIV/AIDS. This certainly shows you the gravity of malaria in this country. We have 20 million Kenyans who are exposed to Malaria. I like working with figures. I would like hon. Kaino to note these figures. The mortality rate among children under five years in this country is very high. How many children die as a result of malaria under the age of five years? About 26,000 children die every year in this country as a result of Malaria. I am shocked because today; I am not seeing the Minister for Public Health and Sanitation in his House. We are not seeing the Minister for Medical Services. This has to be a serious House. This is a very serious Bill. However, because I am also from the Front Bench and my colleagues are here, we will pass the message. This is a very serious matter. I do not want to go so much into figures. I would like to thank, on behalf of the Kenya Government, organizations which this Bill has not mentioned. There are organizations in this country that have supported the Kenyan people in the fight against malaria. We have CARE Kenya doing great work in Siaya. We have Marlin, a British organization in Kisii and African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) in Trans Mara. Mheshimiwa Konchella will bear me out, we have MENTA which is an organization in my constituency in Garissa. We have Medicines sans Frontiers, France in Homa Bay. Above all, we cannot forget World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF,"
}