Beth Mugo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have addressed this Question very thoroughly. Indeed, it is an international problem. It is not just in the country. There is an international task force to look into issues to do with CHWs and Kenya is a member. I represent Kenya. Then there is India, China, Ethiopia and the former Prime Minister of Norway. That is under the auspices of Prof. Sachs who is the special envoy for the United Nations for Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). So, it is something that is disturbing not just us, but the whole world where those services are needed. ... view
• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to say that in the regions which are very difficult to reach, especially North Eastern Province, I have really paid special attention to them. The first heavy duty ambulances I got I gave to all the constituencies in North Eastern Province. All the areas that I am able to intervene are mainly those considered hard to reach like in the North Rift and North Eastern Province. view
• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: If you introduce something only for one area, it will bring problems with other areas. What I would like to emphasize, and I hope the hon. Members will help me here, we got money to employ extra nurses for every constituency, but they were to be employed from the particular area or constituency. We could not get the required health workers in some of the constituencies. Therefore, I have not even got the number I was supposed to employ. The biggest problem now is that the Public Service Commission forwarded a list of nurses we could employ and sent them ... view
• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: have not given us an answer. In fact, my Permanent Secretary is going to hold a meeting with them and see whether they can allow us to employ people from those areas. We had already proposed to hire them. We forwarded the names and when they looked at them they said that they did not come from those particular constituencies. view
• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: I was in Kaloleni and I heard complaints that some of the nurses that we employed--- You employ some and as soon as they get on the payroll, they transfer back to their original areas. I have already given a directive that we prepare a scheme of service for those who are engaged in specific cases like the stimulus package; if they are employed in a certain constituency, they should serve there for at least two or three years; this is what the Ministry of Education does. We have had a problem keeping staff in some of those areas, although ... view
• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I just want to tell the hon. Member that I was born in a village, carried water on my own head in a village and I am not only a city person. I came from a rural area and know exactly what goes on there. view
• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: The reduction of malaria that you are talking about is under my leadership. We have reduced malaria in Nyanza and everywhere else with those community workers. We have people who spray the areas and who are in the payroll. I do accept that community health workers do a very good job. That is what I started by saying. view
• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Regarding the issue of honoraria we will look--- view
• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, my Ministry has not held any workshops in Mombasa and other places he is talking of. We are very thrifty with our money. When donors give money, they give for a specific activity. Unfortunately, we cannot change that activity. I negotiated for some vehicles which we gave to many constituencies. Those are double cabin vehicles that we got from the World Bank through my efforts. They provided specific vehicles for surveillance at the headquarters. I am now trying to get those vehicles out because I do not want them at the headquarters. I want them out ... view
• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy, Sir, I have heard that. People are not supposed to pay for petrol. We will follow this up to see whether our health workers are misusing the facilities. view