Dr. David Eseli Simiyu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. You are very well aware that I do not stand on frivolous points of order, but is Hon. Pkosing properly dressed to be in the House. view
• 2 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: Then they allocate certain monies to their preferred constituencies for certain projects in their constituencies. That is exactly what happens. In a situation like that one, we, in the plenary, are not able to discern what they have done. We can only realise what happened when the implementation of the projects begin. Therefore, it is not that we, in the plenary, are sleeping on the job. It is just because the Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee are a step ahead of those of us who are in the plenary. They appear to know how to hide resources in ... view
• 24 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 24 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, while I know we are in a hurry to get to the CDF Bill, we should not commit an injustice on Kenyans. If, indeed, it is felt that the Health Bill should not be debated now, the issue of calling on the Mover to reply should not arise. Perhaps, the Chair can use its discretion to reorganize the Order Paper so that the Health Bill comes later on because this is a very important Bill. I am surprised that Hon. (Dr.) Munyaka can say we have done justice to this Bill only after 28 Members have contributed. ... view
• 10 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I have been sitting here patiently waiting for this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. At the outset, I want to say that this Bill is long overdue because health was precipitately devolved after the last elections. I believe this happened after the governors blackmailed or arm- twisted the Executive to devolve it at ago. Given that, the Health Bill should have come much earlier, in my view, within six months. In fact, this House should be informed that the Departmental Committee on Health has fought a serious war ... view
• 10 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: The mismanagement of healthcare in Kenya is not just a preserve of the county governments. The national Government is in the game too and it has turned everything upside down. In nations where healthcare is fairly advanced, they lease high-end equipment and buy low-end equipment. In our situation, we have turned it over its head and we are leasing low-end equipment and buying high-end equipment - which forms part of mismanagement of healthcare. view
• 10 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: The county governments are equally mismanaging healthcare to the extent where when a county buys drugs worth Kshs70 million, it calls the Press and takes a photo as they set off the truck to go and deliver the drugs. Before I came to Parliament, I was in private practice. There was somebody who was doing a study on the cost of healthcare in Kenya and picked my clinic as one of his study centres. When he went through my patient records, it came to transpire that in a year, my clinic, which was a one-man show, was prescribing drugs and ... view
• 10 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: You spoke without interruption. So, I do not know why you are interrupting. view
• 10 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: He wants me to explain. That is what I was trying to do. Unfortunately, he did not pay attention from the word go. I said and I repeat it, we do not want to revert healthcare to the national Government. We want the national Government, which is mandated by the Constitution, to extend national referral services to the nearest points. Otherwise, we are implying that the national referral services will only be at KNH and MTRH, which are not accessible to all Kenyans and yet, all Kenyans have a right to national referral services. Most facilities and trained personnel are ... view
• 10 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I think I lost track. I still believe that the Health Services Commission is doable, but there is no political will and there is antagonism towards it. This Bill had too much input from non-medical people, including lawyers and very little input from serious health thinkers. That is why we are having that problem, where there is an excuse that you cannot have a Health Services Commission and yet, there is a body being formulated. The Council of Governors fears the establishment of a Health Services Commission because they have been mishandling health professionals. They fear ... view