Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1230826,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1230826/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 411,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebes, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "Ethiopia. We must practice uniformly so that if you take Mwarubaini in Kenya, it should be the same dosage and uniform packaging as Uganda. We seal into certain standards and that is why its practice has to be in convention with World Health Organisation (WHO) and the guidelines by the United Nations (UN) Agencies. In terms of the amendments that we need to make to our law, if you look at our Kenyan law, we currently do not have a drug authority in Kenya. We have the Pharmacy and Poisons Board which is created under Legal Notice No.244. This Legal Notice created the Pharmacy and Poisons Board. A legal notice and an Act are different and, therefore, we need to have an Act that established a drug authority within Kenya. Currently, if you hear that Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has disapproved the use of a certain drug or refutes a certain standard, then you have confidence that the drug has a problem because FDA in the United States is a standard body. We need to have a similar body in Kenya that once it declares that a certain drug cannot be used in the market, then everybody has confidence in the authority of that organisation. You will find that other countries like South Africa, Uganda and Tanzania have a drug authority. Kenya also needs a drug authority. As you remember, Hon. Millie, in the last Parliament, I came up with the Kenya Food and Drugs Authority Bill which lapsed in this House during the Committee of the Whole House. I have reintroduced it. That is in line with this AMA Treaty. If we are able to support the Kenya Drug Authority Bill in this House… We are currently seeking concurrence with the Senate on the same Bill to enable us to bring it back for the First Reading and to undergo the same process. It has been published at the Government Printer and is ready for processing. That is my intervention on Hon. Millie’s contribution."
}