Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 389905,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/389905/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 121,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1458,
        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
        "slug": "robert-pukose"
    },
    "content": "The third and the final phase would involve setting up ICU units in the remaining county hospitals in over five years. The implementation phases I and II consist of six years scale up programme for ICU services in the county on a yearly basis from 2013 to 2019. I have a programme which the Members who are interested can look at. In terms of the human resource requirement for the proposed ICUs, multi-disciplinary teams of skilled health care providers are required to offer quality ICU services, and the minimum requirement for health care workers by each of the proposed units of five to 12 beds is two anesthetists, one surgeon, two medical officers, 30 nurses, three laboratory technologists, two biomedical technologists, one nutritionist, one counsellor and two physiotherapists. Induction training for the team members can be conducted locally at the KNH; this will require a budget additional to the infrastructure cost as indicated. Some of the necessary training such as that necessary for ICU medical officers is available abroad and the budgetary implications need to be assessed and taken into consideration. The estimated cost of training the multi-disciplinary teams is about Kshs300 million over a four year period. Most of these funds will be used to conduct accelerated training for the critical staff for ICUs, namely the anesthetists and nurses. In our analysis that was done, the budgetary requirement for scaling up ICU services in the country is Kshs1.650 billion. In order to realise this, the Ministry requires the support of the National Treasury to avail the necessary resources for establishing and operationalisation of the ICUs. The Departmental Committee on Health in particular and this House in general, can contribute to the realisation of the plan through advocacy and engagement with the National Treasury during the national budgetary process to ensure that funds are set aside for this programme."
}