{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=319","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=317","results":[{"id":3171,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/3171/?format=json","text_counter":16,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"3. Ms. Irene Cheptoo Keino"},{"id":3172,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/3172/?format=json","text_counter":17,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"- Member Hon. Members, under Section 6(7), the National Assembly is required to vet and consider all the applicants and to approve or reject all or any of them within 21 days of the day it next sits after receipt of the names. I accordingly direct that the names and the accompanying curriculum vitae and other documentation relating to these nominees be forwarded to the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs for consideration and report on or before 7th December, 2011."},{"id":3173,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/3173/?format=json","text_counter":18,"type":"heading","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"PETITION"},{"id":3174,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/3174/?format=json","text_counter":19,"type":"heading","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"INTERVENTION TO AVERT STRIKE BY MEDICAL PERSONNEL"},{"id":3175,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/3175/?format=json","text_counter":20,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dr. Monda","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":83,"legal_name":"Robert Onsare Monda","slug":"robert-monda"},"content":"Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to present to the House a Petition under Article 119 of the Constitution and the National Assembly Standing Order No.205(2) on the urgent need for intervention in the state of health facilities in the Republic of Kenya. Due to the pending strike by doctors – they are now joined by nurses – which is due on 5th December, 2011, on behalf of the petitioners, the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPPDU), I wish to present and lay this petition on the Table of the House. The petitioners draw the attention of the House to the following issues that put this country to a threat of a strike by doctors."},{"id":3176,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/3176/?format=json","text_counter":21,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dr. Monda","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":83,"legal_name":"Robert Onsare Monda","slug":"robert-monda"},"content":"1. As evidenced by the state of the public sector hospitals, lack of human resource, providing training, medical equipment, supporting infrastructure, medicine, capacity building, sustainable policy in management, the health sector has been, and still is, heading for tragic collapse."},{"id":3177,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/3177/?format=json","text_counter":22,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dr. Monda","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":83,"legal_name":"Robert Onsare Monda","slug":"robert-monda"},"content":"2. The KMPPDU has, through all the means available to them, sought the audience of the Ministry of Medical Services and the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation but has been met with silence and hostility."},{"id":3178,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/3178/?format=json","text_counter":23,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dr. Monda","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":83,"legal_name":"Robert Onsare Monda","slug":"robert-monda"},"content":"3. Brain drain involving key health care staff - 85 per cent of doctors joining the Civil Service at any given time as interns will have resigned from the service by the end of 36 months following their appointment, the key reason being poor remuneration not commensurate to their qualifications and workload."},{"id":3179,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/3179/?format=json","text_counter":24,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dr. Monda","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":83,"legal_name":"Robert Onsare Monda","slug":"robert-monda"},"content":"4. Despite Kenya being a signatory to the Abuja Declaration, 2001 and as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) that states that the Government should assign 15 per cent of its annual budget to health care, Kenyans have suffered deliberate annual cuts in national budget allocations to health care. Thus the health care sector has been unable to serve its providers and those in need."},{"id":3180,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/3180/?format=json","text_counter":25,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dr. Monda","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":83,"legal_name":"Robert Onsare Monda","slug":"robert-monda"},"content":"5. Non-existent investment by the State in any meaningful research and capacity building for health care despite losing battles against endemic illnesses and emerging diseases."}]}