Dr. Enoch Kibunguchy

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is a happy day because we have come a long way in passing this Bill. It is a good thing. I want to comment on three areas. One of the positive things in this Bill is that now all the conditional grants going to hospitals have been ring-fenced so that governors cannot use the money the way they like. The second thing is that we have given the Director-General powers to upgrade facilities from a lower level to upper level. As soon as this Bill is assented to and becomes an Act of Parliament, I ... view
• 29 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: I am just making a comment. Like Eng. Gumbo has said, eventually we will have to relook at the Constitution in terms of health matters in this country. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 16 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. Just to allay the fears of my colleague who was talking about a retention fee, I think he should hold his horses until we go to Clause 15 where we have reintroduced that retention fee and it is very clear at that point. view
• 16 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I also stand to support the amendment with the understanding that institutions like KMTC and universities already conduct training with regard to medical records. We do not want the Board to interfere or upset the arrangement that is already in place. view
• 16 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I also agree with my colleagues who have said that 18 years is rather early. As you know in this country, it gets to a point where girls, sometimes, become desperate. We know that there is a monetary element when it comes to surrogate motherhood. We cannot run away from that. Let us increase the age. The next thing I would like to talk about is the way Dr. Nyikal has phrased this amendment. It appears too constrictive. Assisted reproduction is a little wider. When we talk about consent to have an embryo, egg ... view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: As we go ahead, we are getting more and more confused. If you look at most of these amendments as we move forward, you will find that we are replacing “in-vitro fertilisation” on one hand with “assisted reproduction” and on the other hand with “assisted reproductive services" and “reproductive technology”. That is where I am getting confused. We have to be clear because some of these issues, in future, will be grounds for litigation especially when we are dealing with a very sensitive matter. I wish we could all be consistent. What are we substituting “in-vitro fertilisation” with? view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: I agree with Dr. Nyikal. I would like to look at it in a slightly different way. Sometimes you might get a situation where you have a young girl, maybe 20 years old, and she has a problem that requires radiotherapy which will destroy her ovaries. In that process she is not ready to be a mother. So, it is good that we can harvest the eggs and get the embryo and store it until the time she will be ready to be a mother, maybe when she is in her 30s. I am looking at it in that context. ... view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, may I also join my colleagues in thanking Hon. Millie for coming up with this Bill. Initially, when the Bill came to the Departmental Committee on Health, we thought that it was rather restrictive. However, I am The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 9 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: glad and happy that we expanded the scope so that it was not just in-vitro fertilisation but it encompassed all the other technologies that go towards assisted reproduction. view