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    "id": 99464,
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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": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the Malaria Prevention Bill be read a Second Time. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the history of malaria in Kenya and in Africa is devastating. It has caused numerous problems, both economic and social. Malaria has been with us for a long time and the Act of Parliament that we have been using for all these years was enacted in 1929 by the colonial masters. It has disregarded the behavior or changes of the anopheles female mosquito which causes malaria. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in 1942, the DDT was actually used to contain the mosquitoes causing malaria. Today, it is not accepted internationally. Very many things have taken place and this has led me to introduce this Bill. If you go to any hospital, you will realize that about 10 percent of the patients are suffering from HIV/AIDS related diseases while more than 60 percent are malaria cases. We have put a lot of attention on other diseases, leaving this major disease, which has cost us dearly. We have taken other diseases so seriously and we have left this big problem. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you will allow me to outline some important statistics relating to malaria. Available statistics revealed that malaria, and not other illnesses that affect our people, is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Kenya. The Kenya Government Division of Malaria Control indicates that 25 million of Kenyans are at risk of contracting malaria. That is a sizeable fraction of our population. It, therefore, comes as no surprise that malaria accounts for 30 to 50 percent of all out patient attendance and 20 percent of all admissions to health facilities. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is the female anopheles mosquito that spreads malaria. We have no research as yet to establish whether the male mosquitoes also cause malaria---"
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