Dr. Enoch Kibunguchy

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 641 to 650 of 725.

• 13 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what the hon. Ojode is saying is true. Even my own constituency, Lugari, also lacks medical personnel. I think this problem is countrywide. Again, as you all know, we are now currently recruiting nurses and I can assure the House and the country that we are going to post nurses to all the corners of this country including Ndhiwa Constituency immediately we finish the recruitment exercise . view
• 12 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that no applicants with genuine admission letters for various medical courses had been turned away on admission day and the places taken up by new applicants. The selection of candidates who had applied for various courses in the KMTC campuses for the year 2005/2006 intake, was based purely on academic qualification. Selection for various courses in the 25 KMTC campuses was done by the Academic Board on 28th July, 2005. After this, all the successful candidates were issued with letters of admission. (b) I hereby table the complete ... view
• 12 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: (c) In order to make the selection process more transparent and free from any external interference, the Academic Board has put in place the following measures:- (i) With effect from this year, students will be picked automatically in a computerised system, based on their grades. The system, similar to the one used by the Universities Joint Admission Board, will ensure that only qualified students join the colleges. (ii) Secondly, the Academic Admission Board has identified some marginal areas to be offered courses on affirmative action to help train health workers/professionals from those regions. view
• 12 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I cannot competently answer that question until I have looked at the admission letter. Maybe the hon. Member can show me the letter. This is something that the two of us can sort out without having to burden the House with it. view
• 12 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Sir, if I understand the hon. Member, I think he is asking about marginalised areas. I have made it very clear in my answer that some form of affirmative action is going to be extended to those areas. view
• 12 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that question is in two parts. First, the computerised system has worked extremely well with out universities. I do not think anybody can stand up and say that this system has not worked well in our universities. Because of that, we would like to adopt it in our KMTCs. However, the marginalised areas will be given certain preferences and some affirmative action will be extended to them, so that we can bring them on board. July 12, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1995 view
• 12 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have made it very clear that, that is really something personal. The two of us can work it out. We should not burden the House with this. If the admission is really genuine, I want to assure the House that this girl will be admitted to one of our medical training colleges. view
• 12 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to also stand up and oppose this Motion. I oppose it for various reasons. We cannot turn back the clock. We have to move forward. We must keep pace with the rest of the world. The spirit of this Motion is trying to push us back to the days of our grandfathers. For that reason and many other reasons, we must oppose this Motion. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, last week, when the Mover was moving this Motion, the spirit in the House was that we needed to ... view
• 11 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Yes, I am aware. The patient that the hon. Member is referring to was admitted on 17th May, 2006, at 08.00 hours. However, on 16th May, 2006, there was one unidentified male patient who was unaccompanied and treated at the casualty No.21707 among the total number of 29 patients seen after midnight but not before 8.00 a.m. (b) Records show that the patient was put on malarial treatment after a blood test showed presence of malarial parasites. While on treatment, the patient was, however, reported to have been unco-operative, and ... view
• 11 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: . (c) It is neither the practice of the Ministry nor that of the Coast General Hospital to neglect July 11, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1931 patients. However, whenever an issue of neglect of patients occurs, cases are handled within the disciplinary framework provided in the Civil Service Code of Regulations. Currently, my Ministry has introduced a triage nurse service whose role is to regulate traffic in casualty for purposes of ensuring that patients get the necessary assistance in good time and thus take care of unaccompanied patients who are very ill. view