“Children will never get another mother.” When Sudha Murty highlighted the significance of cervical cancer vaccination in her first speech in the Rajya Sabha...
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00:00I am not a politician and I do not know how to talk.
00:03I have given only five minutes and being a teacher, for me, five minutes is an extremely
00:08small slot.
00:10Maybe a man can get another wife, but children will never get another mother.
00:14May I request that to the house that we should incorporate that vaccination for the benefit
00:22of our girls.
00:52How much time do I have, sir?
01:02Five minutes.
01:03Okay.
01:04Five minutes.
01:05I am not a politician and I do not know how to talk for, against, neither of them.
01:14I have been chosen by the, nominated by President of India.
01:19I am really grateful to her and of course, our Prime Minister, who announced my name
01:24on 8th of March, which is a woman's day, as a Nari Shakti.
01:30I always work for poor and I am always on the field, so my experience is entirely different
01:36than both sides of the house.
01:39I have given only five minutes and being a teacher, for me, five minutes is an extremely
01:44small slot.
01:45However, I will try to do only two things.
01:49I am also an author, so I always like to give analogy, Sanskrit shloka and describe.
01:55It may not be possible.
01:56Maybe sometime later, if you give me a maiden speech of 15 minutes at least, I will be able
02:01to do, sir, my expertise in my field.
02:03Yatra Narya Raman Teja, Tatra Deva Taha, that's what our ancestors say, where women are respected,
02:12there is a place where Gods reside.
02:15I want to tell you, the most important thing for women in general is her health because
02:21she always neglects her health and takes care of the family.
02:25And because of that, many women suffer in real life with cervical cancers and they will
02:32come to the hospital only in the fourth stage or third stage.
02:36I am being a daughter and a sister of a doctor, I am aware of this and I have worked in my
02:42last 30 years with Infosys Foundation on this particular area and that I want to give
02:47a suggestion.
02:48There is a vaccination which is given to women, girls between the age of 9 to 14, known as
02:56a cervical vaccination, which can, if the girls have, if the girls take that, it can
03:03be avoided.
03:04May I request that to the house that we should incorporate that vaccination for the benefit
03:12of our girls because prevention is better than cure.
03:17My father being a doctor always used to tell me, when a woman dies, when a mother dies,
03:23in the hospital it's a count plus one, but for the family, a mother is lost forever.
03:30Maybe a man can get another wife, but children will never get another mother.
03:35Mother plays an important role and cervical cancers are more in the later part of life.
03:42So I request that our government should look into this matter.
03:46This vaccination is developed in the West for a long time, sir.
03:50It is already given for the last 20 years.
03:53It is not expensive, I am sure.
03:55You know, today it's 1400 rupees for a person like us who are in the field.
04:00But if the government intervenes and negotiates, it can be, and any business is a win-win situation.
04:06He also should make certain money, but you can bring it to seven, eight hundred rupees
04:10and we have such a large population, sir, it will be benefiting for our girls in future.