Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 594350,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/594350/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 163,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Amolo",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 631,
        "legal_name": "Rachel Ameso Amolo",
        "slug": "rachel-ameso-amolo"
    },
    "content": "have been captured early enough. We would have come up with a solution on how to save the lives of our children from various health centres. You saw quite a number of children from Busia who had to come all the way to Nairobi to be given special treatment just because we could not capture information on who was on duty on that day. So, when we have those records information managers, they will be capturing that information in good time. I want to support the formation of the board and the powers it is given. It will be in charge of all the health records and information managers and technicians. It is going to regulate all that is going to happen. No one will breach what has been put down by the Board. Training will be very crucial because we need to have the syllabus which has to be accepted throughout the country. If it will be through medical training centres, then we need to have a proper syllabus. No other institution will be given permission to train those health records and information managers. This means that we will have standards that will be required when it comes to the training of the health management information managers. The examination that will be done will be a professional one. So, there will be no leakage. In many cases, we have had people come up with certificates that are not recognised in this country. So, through the Board, we shall have proper mechanisms that will set the syllabus and the training of those health records and information managers. We will also have registration of all the staff throughout the country. So, we will get to know who is a registered health records information manager throughout the country so that, by a click of a button, you can know who is an existing one, who has quit and those who have passed away to be removed from the records. We have looked at Clause 23 which talks about offences. It is well stipulated that the offences will be fined when you are found that you do not qualify and you are doing something that amounts to a breach of what the Board has set. When we have an outbreak, it will be so easy for us to follow up, monitor and evaluate what has been happening in our health services. In many cases, when we have an outbreak, it is not so easy for us, as a nation, to come up with a budget on what happens when such an outbreak comes up. So, in the case of malaria in Kakamega County where I have seen quite a number of children die between May and July, it will be so easy for us, through those health records and information managers, to get the information so that we can budget as a nation and get to know how we are going to fight malaria so that it does not reoccur again in Kakamega during the same months. That information, through records management and managers, will help us do research in various fields such as malaria and cancer. We will do research and get to know how we can overcome the outbreak and how the budget can be looked at by the Treasury. The Health Records and Information Managers Bill will help us research in various fields like malaria or cancer. We will research and get to know how we can overcome a malaria outbreak, and how a budget can be looked at by the National Treasury or the committee that is in charge of budget. With regard to the funding, I support the Hon. Member who mentioned that funding has to be looked at properly by the Budget and Appropriations Committee. It has to be amended. As much as I support the Bill, when it comes to funding, Hon. Aghostinho Neto will also have to pass this to the Committee that is concerned. We have had many other cases but for this one, once we follow up the proper procedure of health records and information managers, we shall have professionals who will be dealing with cases from time to time. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}