Dullo Fatuma Adan

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• 12 Oct 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. We ran out of time as I was contributing to this amendment. I wish to congratulate Sen. (Dr.) Ali for bringing this amendment, especially on human resource issues that affect our health sector in the counties. As I said earlier, in the last Senate, we discussed the issues of standards that should be returned back to the National Government because the standards in the counties have gone down. This is something we seriously need to look into. view
• 12 Oct 2021 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 12 Oct 2021 in Senate: It was a good thing to have health devolved, but with the kind of situation in HR and other things that are happening on the ground, we need to look into this issue. In most of the dockets that are run within the hospitals, standards are not kept. Secondly, Human Resource (HR) is also a thorny issue. Some of the dockets are headed by people who are not professionals in that field, which compromises the situation in those health sectors. With this amendment, this situation will be corrected. view
• 12 Oct 2021 in Senate: You will find that in most hospitals, issues of management are a big problem. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the situation is very bad because we do not have experienced people on management of patients running those hospitals, especially at the county level. Unless we sort out the issues of HR, we will have challenges. On issues of salaries, you find there are a lot of problems in the counties. We have seen several counties appearing before the Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments where they recruit casuals without knowing how they are going to deliver in those positions that ... view
• 12 Oct 2021 in Senate: In most counties, especially my County, community health workers were recruited. There is no proper supervision and these people are on record. I believe that with this amendment on HR in the Health Act, it is going to help us solve us the issues of health sector in our counties. view
• 12 Oct 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, some of the counties generate a lot of revenue, but the revenue generated goes to the county headquarters, while that money should be kept at the hospital to run emergencies and also to make sure that the small issues that they need to handle are handled at that particular level. view
• 12 Oct 2021 in Senate: We have encouraged county governments to come up with funds at that level, but unfortunately, most counties do not adhere to the advice by the Senate. That would have improved service delivery in our counties. Promotions in the hospitals and the health sector are based on who is politically correct and who is not. This is very wrong. Staff are demoralized and most of them are disenfranchised in those positions at the county level. There are no in-service courses for members of staff. I believe that if we approve this particular amendment, it will help our counties to ensure that ... view
• 12 Oct 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, there are issues of procurement in the hospitals, where there are people put in those departments, but they do not know anything about health procurement. It ends up with people procuring products that are not useful in some of the hospitals. This is the challenge we face in most counties and it has to be corrected. The Government has pumped a lot of money in the health sector. A big chunk of budget in the counties goes to the health sector but, unfortunately, we do not get proper service delivery. Unless we take care of healthcare in ... view
• 12 Oct 2021 in Senate: In a county like Isiolo, people travel all the way to Meru or Chuka for service delivery. Some of them come all the way to Nairobi. We had an issue with the Managed Equipment Service (MES) project where many issues would have been resolved, but view
• 12 Oct 2021 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view