Cornelly Serem

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: are serious and want to take care of our own, we should employ health personnel as quickly as possible. If the Budget and Appropriations Committee did not consider having the nurses and clinical officers in the health sector, then we should look into that issue during the Supplementary Budget and factor it in. We cannot wait. view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Last week in my constituency, one kid got sick and was rushed to a dispensary. Unfortunately, the person in charge was a nurse aid. Technically, a nurse aid is an officer who is not actually qualified to handle a patient. Within a matter of 10 minutes that kid passed on. I understand he was injected with the wrong medicine. I am sure the same happens across the country, yet we have so many qualified youth in this country. If we want to assist this country address the issue of unemployment, we should consider passing this Motion. view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me also look at the nurse-to-patient ratio in this country. It is shameful. Although Cuba is not a First World country, it is leading in the world as far as nurse-to-patient ratio is concerned. We should adopt the Cuban approach in addressing the issue of nurse-to-patient ratio. It is not expensive and even if it is expensive, it is the right thing to do. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am here to support this Motion, and I hope all of us will do the same. Thank you. view
• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Motion passionately because I understand the need for us to have more nurses in this country. Technically, we have a shortage of 36,000 nurses in this country. The unfortunate thing about it is that we have 35,000 trained but unemployment nurses. I am very concerned that we spend a lot of money training nurses, who benefit the First World countries. We have spent quite a lot of money in constructing dispensaries and health centres in our constituencies using the CDF money. Almost 90 per cent of those health facilities are ... view
• 7 May 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, this is my first time to give a speech in this Parliament. So, let me take this opportunity to thank you very much for getting elected to as our Deputy Speaker. I also thank the people of Aldai for electing me as their Member of Parliament. view
• 7 May 2013 in National Assembly: I rise to oppose this Motion simply because we should not continue establishing institutions when the Government is in charge. If we want to facilitate this country we should encourage investors. Let the Government engage in its business. The Government, in most cases, takes advantage of the common man. We should actually reduce taxes, so that the insurance companies take up these ventures instead of the Government getting involved. This is because if you look at what has happened in the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) as an institution of Government, we hear issues of corruption year in and year ... view
• 7 May 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you. view