Dr. David Eseli Simiyu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I take this opportunity to support the Leader of the Majority Party’s amendment and say something important and the Leader of the Majority Party needs to listen to it. view
• 7 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: The Health Laws (Amendment) Bill, I think, was ill advised. Health is so important that we should not have attempted to amend laws in an omnibus Bill like this one. We should have gone Act after another. It has given the Committee a lot of problems to get to the right places. Health is too important to be treated like this in an omnibus Bill. I beg the Leader of the Majority Party not to do it again next time. view
• 7 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: I support the amendment. view
• 7 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I had come to you to try and recommit something but you ignored it. It is fine. view
• 7 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: I had come to you to try and recommit something which is clashing but that is now water under the bridge. view
• 7 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: I spoke about it but it is water under the bridge. I would like to reiterate what I said earlier – that, health is a very important part of our life in this country or anywhere in the world. If we want to make laws that will guide healthcare in the country, we need to be very meticulous and careful. Bringing them in an omnibus amendment Bill like this one is a very unfortunate thing. In the process, as we were working on these amendments, I kept having the feeling that some of the amendments that were being proposed had ... view
• 7 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Referral Hospital, you will find patients are sharing beds. It is even impossible to run those hospitals. The failure by the public health sector has given the private health sector a chance to increase their prices. It is very simple. Let us get the public health sector working properly. Once it starts working properly, the prices of healthcare that we are complaining about will self- regulate and come down. The private sector will not have as many patients as they do now. It is very important that we are careful when we propose laws to govern healthcare. Apart from the ... view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: The same issue Dr. Otiende spoke about arises here again. This is the terminology used, namely, “the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dental Council”. So, that seems to be recurring all through. It might need a clean-up. Maybe the legal team or the Clerks-at-the-Table can advise how we can clean it up. view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: It should have read that he should have a degree in medicine or dentistry. There is something that has been dropped there. So, the Committee should correct it. view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, it is unfortunate that some Members of this House can actually impute improper motive on the Committee, that perhaps the Committee was not watchful. That perhaps, the Committee was pursuing interests of a certain cadre of medical practitioners and not others. This particular section deals with medical practitioners and dentists and not diploma holders. Indeed, we accommodated the Member who said that in the amendments to the Pharmacy and Poisons Board Act. In fact, I am disappointed that despite going out of our way to have her wishes on board, she can react like that. view