Abdul Rahim Dawood

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 11 to 20 of 769.

• 6 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: I have keyed in here for one and a half hours. view
• 6 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I apologise. However, it was not my fault. I wanted to contribute to the National Construction Authority (Amendment) Bill as well. I waited until Hon. Mabongah asked for the closure of debate. The second time I wondered when I would contribute. Members came after me and contributed. I thank you for giving me this space. view
• 6 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: I support this Bill by Hon. Mabongah which is very timely. I paid for one lady who had been detained in the hospital yesterday. We need to amend this Bill. We should not only criminalise detention of the dead, but also those who have hospital bills. They are detained in hospital against their will because they cannot pay off the Bills. There are people who cannot afford to go to private hospitals, but they have to go there. They cannot even pay a bill of Ksh20,000. They are detained there for long. When that happens, Ksh20,000 goes up to Ksh40,000. ... view
• 6 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: There is a body which was lying at Kenyatta National Hospital. The villagers were unable to bury the person for one month. They came to me. We worked it out. We took the body home to bury it. That gives a lot of anguish to the people who are bereaved. Instead of mourning they are now running around looking for ways to sell their cows, goats, their parcels of land or get money from a shylock which will come to hinder them in future. So, it is very important. Like you have mentioned, there should be a court ruling that ... view
• 6 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: In the last Parliament, I had brought a Motion to pass ICU units together with blood donor units in each and every constituency. However, to date, the Government has not done anything about it. I hope, with this Bill, if signed to law, we will have those regional centres. As regards the cancer regional centres, we should not just have regional centres; we should have it down to the constituency level. Even if we get those regional centres, let us have oncologists on call, let us have the proper machinery like the one at the Kenyatta University Hospital, in each ... view
• 6 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: further. Cancer treatment is very expensive. The Government needs to come up not just to establish those cancer centres, we need to subsidise the cost. Most of the poor people cannot pay the costs charged for cancer treatment. If we do not do that, we will not be doing much. We also need to equip each and every regional centre or county centre. Otherwise, it will be very far, if it is a regional centre, where to put it when we have already devolved into counties because that is what is there. If for instance we have eastern regional centre ... view
• 6 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: The last one is the amendment which Hon. Mabongah has talked about; the fair charges. Like Hon. Pukose has said, the differences between a public and a private hospital are like day and night. Most of the times, machinery in public hospitals break down, so people do not have a choice. They have to go to a private hospital. When they go to a private hospital, the costs are prohibitive. I do not know if we can introduce an amendment at the Committee of the whole House to put a limit of between 10 and 20 per cent above the ... view
• 6 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: The other thing which we need as Parliament in the next session, is to move the health workers to a health commission. We have issues with health workers who are under county governments. We need to retake the burden of health workers. What is happening at the moment is that many counties cannot handle health workers. There are normally many strikes. So, we need to do something like what the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is. It is the same way we need to do a Health Service Commission which will take account of all needs of health workers. If we ... view
• 30 Mar 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support Hon. Washiali’s Bill because it will instil professionalism. Thank you. view
• 9 Feb 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, I want to congratulate Hon. Owino. I believe that this Community Health Workers Bill should go through. We need to empower the community health workers. The ones who are already in the job should not be trained. The training that they have should suffice. It should be put in place, so that the Council does not say that they have to be trained again. Community health workers are the backbone of this country. If they are not qualified according to the training manual, they should still be registered and be given ... view