Benjamin Jomo Washiali

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1851 to 1860 of 1882.

• 26 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to ask the Minister for Medical Services the following Question by Private Notice. (a) Is the Minister aware that the only cervical cancer radiotherapy machine at Kenyatta National Hospital has been inoperative for the past four years and that cervical cancer patients are now referred to Uganda for treatment? (b) What urgent steps is the Minister taking to purchase other machines and to repair the machine at Kenyatta National Hospital? (c) Could the Minister also put to use the idle cancer machine at Kisumu? view
• 26 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, while I thank the Minister for that answer, it is disheartening to know that a cervical cancer radiotherapy machine broke down in 2007 and nothing has been done to date. Cervical cancer patients have to go all the way to Uganda, where they are charged Kshs45,000 instead of the Kshs5,000 which they were being charged here when those machines were operational. The other disheartening thing is that many of the cervical cancer doctors in Uganda were trained in this country. What is the Ministry doing to address this issue immediately? view
• 26 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether the Minister is aware that, in this country, we have only four oncologists; doctors dealing with cases of cancer. Three of them deal with adult patients and one doctor deals with children. What is the Minister doing to improve the number of doctors who are attending to these cancer patients? view
• 26 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like the Minister to tell this House who the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Women Enterprise Development Fund is. And also--- view
• 25 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to ask the Minister for Medical Services the following Question by Private Notice. (a) Is the Minister aware that the only cervical cancer radiotherapy machine at Kenyatta National Hospital has been inoperative for the past four years and that cervical cancer patients are now referred to Uganda for treatment? (b) What urgent steps is the Minister taking to purchase other machines and to repair the machine at Kenyatta National Hospital? (c) Could the Minister also put to use the idle cancer machine at Kisumu? view
• 25 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, while I thank the Minister for that answer, it is disheartening to know that a cervical cancer radiotherapy machine broke down in 2007 and nothing has been done to date. Cervical cancer patients have to go all the way to Uganda, where they are charged Kshs45,000 instead of the Kshs5,000 which they were being charged here when those machines were operational. The other disheartening thing is that many of the cervical cancer doctors in Uganda were trained in this country. What is the Ministry doing to address this issue immediately? view
• 25 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether the Minister is aware that, in this country, we have only four oncologists; doctors dealing with cases of cancer. Three of them deal with adult patients and one doctor deals with children. What is the Minister doing to improve the number of doctors who are attending to these cancer patients? view
• 5 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to know from the Minister the criteria they use in choosing the roads to be tarmacked, because you will find that we have roads which are very important to the people - there is a high number of vehicles that are using that road - yet they do not consider it for tarmacking. For example, there is a road from Mumias to the southern part of Mumias called Musanda in my place. It has very heavy traffic but they have never considered tarmacking that road. Which criteria do they use? view
• 4 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture---- The other day, we visited Mwea where they grow bio-technological cotton. Who has authorised KARI to carry out research on cotton if the Cotton Development Authority does not have a chief executive? view
• 4 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Agriculture:- (a) whether he could inform the House on how much fertiliser has been imported as subsidies to farmers to mitigate the effects of post-election skirmishes and the current food crisis; (b) how much fertiliser has been channelled to the sugar sub-sector; and, (c) how, when and at what price it will be sold to farmers. view