Dr. Enoch Kibunguchy

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) My Ministry is currently improving services at the health centre by enhancing utilization of the facility. (b) My Ministry has already posted one registered clinical officer, one laboratory technologist, three nurses and arrangements are still being made to post one more nurse. Koiwa Health Centre has been receiving regular supplies as entitled. It has continuously received supplies on a quarterly basis, like other health centres. The last supply to this facility was on 16th April, 2007. With regard to equipment, recently, my Ministry issued standard equipment for health centres to Koiwa ... view
• 18 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, indeed, the Ministry will consider that request. But the request of whether we should upgrade a dispensary to a health centre or a health centre to a sub-district hospital normally comes from the ground. It is the people from that area who will meet and pass the minutes through the District Development Committee (DDC). The minutes then come to us and if we think it is warranted, then we do as the people have requested. view
• 18 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry of Health has never shied away from saying that we do not have enough health workers. But one thing that I would like to assure hon. Members and the country about is that, all the health facilities that have been registered have now been operationalized. When I say "operationalized", we mean that we have sent adequate staff, supplies in terms of drugs and equipment. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry of Health is, however, even going to go further than that. We have asked all our District Medical Officers of Health (DMOH) to rationalize ... view
• 18 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in fact, she is confirming what I said. I said that we do not have enough health workers in our Ministry and I have never shied away from saying that. I did not say that we do not have enough trained health workers in the country. I know we have enough trained health workers in this country. I would like to ask the hon. Member to commend the Ministry because for the very first time since last year, we have started employing health workers. view
• 18 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is something that we could look into. However, at the moment, we have availed ambulances to all our provincial and district hospitals. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know the issue of new districts has dominated this House and as a Ministry, we are also considering sending ambulances to the newly-created districts in our next phase and after that, we will come to facilities like Koiwa Health Centre. view
• 18 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance to also contribute on this Motion. Before I start, I would like to congratulate my friend, hon. Ojode, for coming up with a Motion that, to me, should be unanimously adopted and accepted by all hon. Members of this august House. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will start off by saying that, probably, the greatest disaster that ever befell this country was this whole concept of Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) because during that time, a lot of unpleasant things happened in this country. One of them was ... view
• 18 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to disagree a little with Prof. Anyang'- Nyong'o, who said that we need to get retired teachers, priests and what-not, coming to teach our pupils. I think that we have enough trained manpower who are unemployed as we speak now. So, we do not need to go out and get retired people. In any case, one of the things that we are saying and it is being said out there is that, this Government is in the habit of employing people who should be retired. So, I would like to disagree vehemently ... view
• 18 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I have been in this House since we started debate on the Report of the PAC. I can see that hon. Members have started to repeat themselves. Would I be in order to ask the Mover to reply? view
• 18 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I will be very brief because, as Prof. Ojiambo stated, we discussed this Bill, extensively, during the last Session and we were in agreement in many areas. However, before I 768 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 18, 2007 tackle one or two areas about this Bill, First of all, I would like to congratulate Prof. Ojiambo for her tireless efforts in making sure that nutritionists and dieticians of this country have a home, so to speak, where they can all belong. I would also like to congratulate her, because in the course of trying to ... view
• 12 Apr 2007 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is it in order for the hon. Member who is contributing to impute improper motives without giving us evidence that drugs that reach hospitals are sold? I would like to protect the Ministry's workers. Unless he has concrete evidence, I would like him to withdraw that statement. view