Dr. Enoch Kibunguchy

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: As we debate this Motion, we know that Article 43(2) of our Constitution is very clear that a person shall not be denied emergency medical treatment. As a country, we have to emphasize this. Recently, it was publicized in the newspapers that a young man who was involved in an accident stayed in an ambulance for 18 hours. I would like to commend the people who were in that ambulance otherwise he could have died much earlier than 18 hours. He was denied treatment and yet that was an emergency case. I know that matter is being handled. It should ... view
• 28 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: First and foremost, Dr. Susan Musyoki has just talked about ambulances. Now we have ambulances everywhere but most of the ambulances we have in this country that are being bought by the county governments do not qualify to be called ambulances because they do not have basic facilities for resuscitating a patient. We need to have an ambulance that is properly fitted with equipment and has oxygen. Such personnel would be in that ambulance. In case they are transporting a patient and he develops a complication that requires immediate attention, the personnel that we want to train and give specialized ... view
• 28 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: The other place that this person should be in is primary hospital. In this country we talk about levels of hospitals. I would say this person should be in Level 3 hospitals going up. These personnel should be there and in every other major hospital. view
• 28 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Before I wind up, I just want to talk about this whole concept of referral system in this country. These people fit there very well. If we have a properly functioning referral system where people are being referred from one level to a slightly higher level of medical care, and knowing that medicine and health are completely devolved--- I would have loved to see a situation where we have a well-equipped central hospital that will work as a referral centre in every constituency. That is in Level 4 hospital. It should be well equipped and well manned with all these ... view
• 28 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Since I am seconding this Motion, I will sit down with my colleague and work with her so that this Motion can come up as a Bill. This is because we know not many people implement issues raised in Motions. We want to come up with a Bill so that it can be implemented and go a long way in serving our people with emergency cases. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to second. view
• 13 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance. Let me also add my voice. Before I do that, let me say that this is a very happy day for me because, at least, we have a mechanism and a system that is going to bring the administration of justice very close to the people. view
• 13 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: I would like to look at two areas. One of them is the adjudicator. I know many people have talked about it. I will go as per the Bill. It gives this individual five years of experience. Because we are looking at a judicial or court system which wants to make things very easy and informal, we have to have somebody with a lot of experience to do that. If you get a young man who has just left law school and you make him an adjudicator before he gets experience in some of these nitty-gritty, he might end up ... view
• 13 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: I will go by that. But what is even more important like most Members of Parliament have said is that this is a system that is fairly localised. It is a system we are borrowing from what has been happening; where we have elders and assistant chiefs dealing with these small issues within the community; issues of trespassing on people’s land, issues of boundaries of people’s farms and small debts in the villages and in the communities and many others like burials and dowry. view
• 13 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: What we need to do with this adjudicator, in my view, is to give him a panel of elders from the area, people who know the area very well. As the Bill stands, this adjudicator can come from anywhere. They have not specified in the Bill that he must be somebody who comes from that area. So, we need to give him people who understand the small problems that occur in that community on a day to day basis. So, I am going to bring an amendment so that this adjudicator has a small office around him; a panel of ... view
• 13 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: The next thing that I see is that as soon as these small claims courts are established, they are going to be crowded with so many cases. Because we have said that the cases must be handled expeditiously, possibly in one day, maximum three days, I can see many cases pending within these courts yet that is not really what we wanted. I imagine that once you start a case, you must finish it before you start another one. Although we have said and this is excellent that all these courts should be set up in every sub-county, soon after ... view