Abdul Rahim Dawood

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Little information exists on the current state of intensive care in the less developed countries. There seems to be a wide variance in availability of ICUs in this country ranging from non-existent to sophisticated centres in selected private hospitals catering for few privileged patients. In addition, the medical profession in less developed countries is not set up to provide formal training in intensive care. The factors inevitably result in lack of recognition of intensive care medicine as a specialty in resource poor settings. view
• 24 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: The ICU at the KNH was established in 1972 with the technical assistance of the Government of Japan. The local expertise was trained by them and it is limited. Whereas they currently have 21 Critical Care Unit (CCU) beds with 140 nurses deployed and a staffing ratio of two nurses for every three patients, the ICU is primarily being managed by consultants in anesthesiology. The challenges faced include the equipment shortage as I have already enumerated. Despite the above challenges the CCU is still able to provide satisfactory critical care to patients who are there. As a result of the ... view
• 24 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: have ICU wards although the costs are too prohibitive for ordinary Kenyans to go to private hospitals for ICU services. view
• 24 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: With this, it is only 11 per cent of hospitals in Kenya which provide ICU care. The WHO recommends that each hospital which performs surgery and anesthesia ought to have and should have an ICU. Comparing that with what we have in Kenya by recommendation from the Society of Critical Care, we need to have between 20-40 per cent of total beds for the ICU. If we count with what we have currently, it is only 0.29 per cent of what we have for 44 million people in Kenya. This leads to critical illnesses not being taken care of. It ... view
• 24 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I request my fellow Members of Parliament to support this Motion. We need 400,000 units of blood every year but the collection is less 180,000 units. Because of that, we should think how we can establish ICUs. With those many remarks, I request Hon. (Dr.) Musimba to second the Motion. Thank you. view
• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First of all, I would like to thank Hon. Injendi for bringing this Motion. We have a problem in this country, in terms of where the registrars are located. In my case, the Registrar is located in Embu. It is not right. We want people to get married. The Bible, in the Book of Matthew, Chapter 19, verses 4 to 6 states that a man and a woman were created and a man has to leave his father to become one flesh with his lady. The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 18, verse 22, goes ... view
• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First of all, I would like to support this Bill by Hon. Sakaja, which is very timely. It will go a long way in helping the youth, especially in terms of empowerment. It will also deal with the issue of youth radicalisation. It will have a channel through which the youth can get employment. In the United Kingdom, we have job centres. When I was studying there, I went to a job centre to register when I was out of school. It works very well, and that is the kind of thing which should ... view
• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: A couple of days back, there was an article in a newspaper which stated that people going for jobs needed pushing. I believe that is not the right way to go. If somebody does not know anybody else in any job category, it means that he will never get a job. This Bill will address those kinds of issues. The youth require a way out. We are talking of 40 per cent unemployment rate, 70 per cent of them are the youth. If we do not support the youth, we are looking at a time bomb, which will explode any ... view
• 10 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wish to thank hon. Kang’ata for donating a minute to me. First of all, I would like to congratulate the CEO of HELB, Mr. Ringera, who comes from my constituency and has done a very good job. Secondly, the loans should be discounted. The in duplum rule should be applied. Interest should not exceed the loan that has been taken by the students. Thirdly, we should not have biases towards students’ representatives in private or public universities. There are TVET institutions. We should even offer loans to middle level colleges to do diplomas ... view
• 10 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: on the Credit Reference Bureau (CRB) should be removed. This is because how will they get a job if listed? view