Enoch Kiio Wambua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the Motion by Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve talks about giving a stipend to patients. When I read the Motion, it talks about “identified hospitals”. I wish to suggest that if a stipend is going to be given to cancer patients, that stipend should go to every cancer patient in every hospital and those who are suffering at home. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: If we say that this stipend will be determined by patients visiting certain hospitals, we will be cutting off the people that need this stipend the most. There are patients - and we must say it as it is - that continue to suffer at home because they cannot even afford a visit to hospitals for the management of the disease. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: I like the proposal by Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve to give subsidies to cancer prescriptions; not just medicine, but also other appliances like wigs for those who lose their hair, free improvised breasts and other prescriptions. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, at times you also wonder how we deal with our situations as a nation. Cancer kills tens of thousands of Kenyans every year. That has been consistent over the years; that has been happening. However, the attention that the Government gives to cancer is so mild that cancer treatment is treated like just any other form of treatment. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: This is what baffles me: Just the other day when the COVID-19 arrived in our land, everybody was running up and about, and funds and budgets were found. I remember this House donated over Kshs200 million for the rapid response to the treatment and management of COVID-19 patients. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: I am thankful to God that almost a year after the pandemic landed on our land, we have lost very few people and I am very grateful to God for that. However, between the time that COVID-19 arrived here and today, the number of people that we have lost to cancer is almost 10 times, but you do not see that panic reaction, that urge by Government to deal with cancer. This is a collective shame to many of us. When we attend burials of people who have succumbed to cancer, that is when we hear all the declarations from ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko has done well to remind this House that we are part of Government. We cannot sit here and start pointing fingers at other people, saying “they should,” or “they have not”. We have a role to play as leaders, legislators and people who are privileged to be the champions of devolution; people who are supposed to anchor devolution where health is a devolved function. We should be seen to be doing a lot more than just talking about cancer. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, we have all come from counties and these counties have budgets. These budgets are supposed to reflect the spirit of the Abuja Declaration. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: What percentage of our county Government budgets are allocated to health? Even when 15 per cent of their budgets are allocated to health, how much of it goes to treatment of our people? A lot of it would go into payment of salaries for casuals, purchase of vehicles, seminars and conferences. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, it is high time that, as Senators, we also realized that we have a role to play and not just apportion blame to other arms of Government. We are an arm of Government with a responsibility to our people, especially cancer patients in the country. view