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    "speaker_name": "Gilgil, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms) Martha Wangari",
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    "content": "not negotiate because the numbers that we are witnessing in Tanzania will affect our numbers as we are talking today. We must be very decisive as a country, between the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government and the Ministry of Defence, on closing the borderline in Mandera, Lamu and other areas. Otherwise, the gains we have made will be ploughed back by the numbers that we will register. I say that because last week — as we met and we sit with you in the Delegated Legislation Committee — we had cases of people who went to Somalia to buy goats and came back through Wajir. Consequently, Wajir registered cases that were brought back by the people from Somalia, who had gone to buy livestock, both camels and goats. We must be very categorical. The Ministry of Defence with the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government must take this very seriously and close totally, the borderline between Somalia and us and between Tanzania and ourselves. The other issue is the fact that we have relegated all other illnesses and forgotten that every day in this country we still lose 90 cancer patients. Those numbers are alarming. Today in my constituency, in an area called Ngomongo, almost a thousand families are outside because of flooding. So, we also must not forget that, even if we have and are dealing with the issues of Covid- 19. The disaster institutions that we have put in place must not stop working. We must not say that everything else stops because at the end of the day, who are we protecting? It is Kenyans. In the last two months, we had floods that have killed almost 200 people in this country and we are not talking about that. Cancer kills almost 3000 people per month and we are not talking about that. I hope the Ministry and the county governments can take this chance to improve the institutions that we have at the county levels. Why do I say that? I have said before on this Floor that we must make our referral hospitals be referral hospitals. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Eldoret, Nakuru Provincial General Hospital (NPGH) in Nakuru and Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) must not be used to treat HIV/AIDS, administer ARVs, treat malaria or give immunization to children; they must be referral hospitals. The only way to do that is to make sure that the dispensaries — one in Kiptangwanyi in my constituency and other areas — are working and have basic medication that is required. During this flu season, we are dealing with children with respiratory issues, which are normal — apart from the Covid-19 — that will escalate because of the danger of having pre-existing conditions. So, we must make sure that we deal with them at that level so that anything else is escalated to the referral hospitals. On the issue of relief food, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, people in my constituency were registered by the chiefs in the Deputy County Commissioners (DCCS) and Assistant County Commissioners (ACCs) offices almost three weeks ago. If you are giving people food, please know that hunger does not wait. Let this be efficient, done properly, use the Nyumba Kumi and the right frameworks to deliver food to the people who need it. We have another number that we did not have before. People who used to wash clothes and get Kshs300 to give food to their children are no longer doing that because people are closing their homes. They cannot even access them to get that Kshs300. In terms of increasing that net, it can only get wider. I support the Motion."
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