Augostinho Neto Oyugi

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• 21 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Indeed, I still have 26 minutes to move. I do not intend to use the 26 minutes because I would like my colleagues to contribute. There is also other pending House business. I had just started by thanking the people who had helped me to work on the Bill. I will try to break down what this Bill is all about. This Bill is about creating an institution that will be called the Health Records and Information Managers Board. The reason being: Presently, people who conduct health records in the whole country do not ... view
• 21 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Secondly, this law is going to help us with the registration of the health records and information managers. Presently, there is no proper way to know who is properly registered to act as health records information manager. Thirdly, with all the other professions, there ought to be someone who is licensing or giving people certificates of practising. It will equate that particular noble profession with other professions like law, medicine, dentists and nurses. There is a body that gives them licenses for purposes of practising. Right now, across the country, everyone else is practising as a health records and information ... view
• 21 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: universities are not sufficiently equipped to offer law courses. This Bill empowers the Board to recommend the institutions qualified to offer health records and information management training. This will ensure that not any college comes up to claim that they have the ability and capacity to offer this training. view
• 21 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Clause 6(1)(f) empowers the Board to ensure that exams are administered to people who seek registration as health records and information managers. The examination should also be standard so that we do not have people qualified under different examinations. Whether it is an institution in my small village in Ndhiwa that wants to train health records and information managers, it should operate within the same curriculum and administer the same examinations as other institutions in the country. This will ensure that people who train and are admitted into this profession have gone through the same curriculum. Lastly, we would like ... view
• 21 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: history of the malaise and the treatment a patient has been getting. Some people have engaged in offences which we have tried to categorize under Clause 23, and the penalties for the offences. Clause 26 creates a disciplinary committee and provides for the conduct of disciplinary proceedings. For example, if anyone has issues with a health records and information manager, there is a way of instituting a claim for disciplinary action and how that claim is going to be administered. Clause 33 provides for what would amount to professional misconduct. There are people who would be engaging in things that ... view
• 21 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the second thing I would like to speak to is the concern by the Departmental Committee on Health. I am sad that the Chair of the Committee is not here. Her concerns were that this Health Records and Information Managers Bill ought to have been halted until the Health Bill is passed. Be that as it may, not everything that is in the health sector can be contained in the Health Bill. Whereas it is possible that the Health Bill forms the bigger body corpus of what is health, it is not possible to regulate all ... view
• 21 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: In future, it is possible to have various sectors of the healthcare department fragmented in a way that helps in holistic management. All that can be done if you create a national health secretariat which coordinates the various bodies. I hope that is what the Health Bill will achieve; that you have one omnibus body that is in charge of various sectors that are in charge of management and how the professions are conducted. view
• 21 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: I do not want to speak so much because I had promised to use my very little time and have my colleagues contribute. With those remarks, I move and request my very good friend, the Member for Matungulu, Hon. Stephen Mule, to second. Thank you. view
• 21 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this chance to reply. I thank all the Hon. Members of Parliament who spoke to this particular Bill; I appreciate them. I also want to thank the Members of the Departmental Committee on Health for setting the pace for this Bill, explaining and underscoring the need for health records and information. I appreciate them. Hon. Members have raised a couple of things. I would like to speak to three of them. The first one, which most Members of the Departmental Committee on Health are concerned about, is the issue of private practitioners ... view
• 21 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: the cost of that particular board. That is why we are establishing the Board under Clauses 5 and 6 with power to invest, have assets on its own; so, it will be self-regulating. That is the reason why it is not going to occasion expenditure of public funds; it is the reason why when this particular Bill was subjected to the Budget and Appropriations Committee, it was not declared a money Bill; it does not occasion any public spending. The Board is going to be self-regulating. The third thing I would like to speak to is the fact that the ... view