Enoch Kiio Wambua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Chairperson, pursuant to Standing Order No. 148, I beg to move that the Committee of the Whole do report to the House its consideration of The Mung Beans Bill (Senate Bills No.09 of 2020) and seek leave to sit again tomorrow. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Committee on the said Report. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I thank you for this opportunity to also comment in support of the Motion by my friend and colleague, Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve. There is no denying that cancer has indeed become a serious problem in this country. In fact, it is moving towards becoming a real pandemic. If one is not infected, then chances are that we are all affected. In one way or another, it is a family member, friend, relative, neighbor or a colleague who has had to suffer cancer. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: I appreciate the fact that Kenya is a signatory to the Abuja Declaration, which sets aside at the very least 15 per cent of the budget of the national Government to go into healthcare. Whether we have consistently done that and lived to our commitment, the jury is still out. In thanking my colleague, Sen. Musuruve for bringing this Motion, I also want to sincerely thank God for her because she is a living example that if cancer is screened and detected at the early stages, it is actually treatable and people can live their full lives. Everyone is at ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: Once one gets cancer, it becomes extremely expensive to treat and manage it. I believe that is the reason why when heads of governments and representatives from partner organizations met in Abuja, they said that there was need for a commitment from governments to put a certain percentage towards healthcare. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, back home and I must mention this, sometime in 2019, this House constituted a Committee to look into the Managed Equipment Services (MES) in hospitals. I remember that you and I sat in that Committee. We did a lot of work in terms of identifying where the loopholes were on a programme that I am still convinced was very well intentioned. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, if MES was implemented according to the initial thinking behind it, perhaps some of the problems that we are talking about today, including the severity of cancer could be minimized. However, as is the case in many Government projects, somebody saw a loophole to enrich themselves at the expense of Kenyan masses. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: We must say these things as they are. Our healthcare system is on its knees, both in the counties and in the National referral hospitals. It is almost impossible for an ordinary Kenyan family to independently afford the treatment of a single cancer case in their family. Therefore, the Motion and prayer by Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve that the Government needs to push a lot more funds in the management and treatment of cancer is very welcome. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: However, it is not just funds for the treatment and management of cancer that we need to be dealing with. We should look into the issue of funds for training sufficient and quality personnel to treat our patients. We have very few oncologists in this country. It is expensive to train an oncologist and yet they provide a very essential service in the healthcare sector. We need more funds to train a lot more doctors in the area of cancer. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, we need more funds, not just to train doctors and treat patients, but also to encourage and demystify early screening. Many people are afraid to go for early screening because of fear of the unknown. They do not know what is going to happen should they be found to have cancer cells in their bodies. There is need for the Government to carry out proper civic education and demystify early cancer screening, so that more people can be screened for early detection and, therefore, early treatment. view