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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Wahome",
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        "legal_name": "Alice Muthoni Wahome",
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    "content": "say that we should not condemn the hospital. But we must put a strong voice and, in some cases, condemn the actions or negligence of workers at the hospital. I agree with them entirely. Unless we put our minds and thoughts where the events and mistakes occurred, we might not be able to prevent another occurrence of similar nature at KNH. Being a referral hospital, KNH must start ensuring that the services it is offering, especially professional services meet the status of a referral hospital. Every year, Kenyans allocate KNH a budget. Notwithstanding the inadequacies of that budget, we also pay professional staff at that hospital. I find it extremely worrying. I live with a doctor in my house. Wahome is a gynaecologist. I understand a few things that occur. I know the Deputy Speaker is smiling about that because he has regularly reminded me on that specific item. On the work of the registrars and the professional consultants at KNH, there is a serious failure that we must point out even as we support some of the recommendations that the Committee has come up with. I am extremely concerned that a wrong patient can reach an operation table without the surgeon noticing. It could be due to negligence. I am told that registrars have permission to operate under supervision. The consultants were not at the operating table in this particular case. We must look at the regulations under which the registrars undergoing training work. Who supervises them, and what are the guidelines on handling patients, especially serious cases like the ones we are discussing? There was a surgery to open up a patient’s head or do craniotomy. I am happy that various recommendations have been made by the Committee, including improving the working conditions, buying new equipment and renewing some medical equipment. However, the Committee has not addressed issues of dissatisfaction amongst many women in this country, including the alleged cases of sexual assault that took place at KNH. Failure by victims to report to the hospital does not mean that rape has not occurred. This is not a usual crime to report. Therefore, I would want this specific crime investigated. You can imagine your wife or your mother or your daughter going to deliver at KNH and then a morgue worker adds some extra burden on her through rape. That is a heinous crime, if it happened. It must be checked. It is not enough for KNH to say that no incident has been reported to administration. These are not the offences that women rush to report. The welfare of the registrars must be looked at. Their terms of engagement with KNH and University of Nairobi must be looked at because they do the bulk of the work at that hospital. I want to understand how this House will make a difference in terms of addressing these particular bad incidences, as an opportunity to improve service delivery at KNH. The Committee should have gone further to recommend the establishment of a rapid technical committee to follow up on all the issues that have emerged with a view to tackling them, with the assistance of this House’s Departmental Committee on Health, as an oversight Committee. This Committee must take the opportunity to do a proper oversight. If, every time, we just come here with a report, debate and pass it, and then put on a shelf to gather dust, we will not be responding to the problems that have been raised by the Committee. I agree that the Committee has found very serious issues that need urgent attention, including mismanagement or lack of management. The Committee needs to do their job by way of oversight, which is its constitutional mandate; but we also need to establish a technical committee to start work immediately. It needs to look at all the things that the Committee has listed, including the buying of equipment. One Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine has served for 13 years instead of the usual seven. We are now purchasing an MRI. We want to know when it will be installed. We also want to know the results of investigations on sexual 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."
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