Getrude Musuruve Inimah

All parliamentary appearances

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• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: What came out clearly from the Ministry was that they are ready to loan private schools Kshs7 billion. I want to say before Kenyans that those are priorities upside down. What about schools whose classrooms are made of mud and finished with cow dung? What about teachers who have not been paid? Even if it is a sessional loan, that is upside down in terms of priority. view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, the Ministry of Education should come before the whole House and tell us exactly what they have done. We need to go to the ground and see what they are saying, and if it corroborates with what is on the ground. This is because most of the time when information is sought from the Ministry, we just get desk responses, where somebody decides what they will tell us. There is need for interrogation. Universities needed to open like yesterday because of research. The Ministry cannot do research like universities would do. The electronic version of the Senate ... view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: There is need for the Committee led by Sen. Kasanga to have a matrix of operation, where they are going to look at information from schools and see that programmes are running well. The emphasis should be on children with disabilities. They could tell you that they have sign language interpreters, but we have different and varied categories of disabilities. All types of disabilities need to be addressed because we have children with disabilities in households whose parents do not know what to do with them. The Ministry of Education has not communicated to schools. If you ask heads of ... view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this Bill by Sen. (Dr.) Zani. This Bill is handy at a time like this when we are talking about the Big Four Agenda where health is one of them. As a Senate, we have to ensure that services are delivered in the counties. view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: This Bill is in line with international legal instruments. The Abuja Declaration states that 15 per cent of the national revenue should go to health. Kenya is one of the signatories of the Abuja Declaration. Apart from that, Kenya also ratified the Alma Ata Declaration which stresses the need for individual and community participation in planning and implementation of issues to with health. People-led initiatives become sustainable because people want to own and be part of the project. With that, the attitude is positive. This Bill will ensure sustainability of community health services at the grassroots. One of the things ... view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: In the second Strategic Plan, the Ministry of Health shifted its focus on health issues from the national and cascaded it to the county level. It affirmed that there is need to emphasise that issues of health should be devolved to the counties. The Ministry also asserted that community health services should be in the level one category. That is what they suggested. However, there was no legal framework on that and it was not enshrined in law. This Bill seeks to bring the legal framework by ensuring that community health services fall in level one category. They should be ... view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: This Bill seeks to ensure that county governments are actively involved in ensuring that health services are offered to the common man. The Bill also seeks to bring services closer to the communities. Apart from that, it also gives provision for capacity building at the county level. This is because community health workers have a role to play. view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: This Bill also helps workers and community workers to have a role to play. When it comes to health services at the counties, the people on the ground before people go to Level 2 and Level 3 facilities are health workers, who are known in the community. view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: I support this Bill because it empowers the community to choose health workers in a baraza . There is no single time a County Executive Committee (CEC) Member will arrogate the work to himself because the community will be involved. Public participation and community involvement are important. You will find children below the age of five years in the village die because of poor nutrition. Sometimes we have maternal death simply because of lack of advice. The community health workers come on board to give advisory opinion on issues of disease and nutrition. In the counties, when people are harvesting ... view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: In the Bill, the community health workers are supposed to be paid. I would like to suggest to Sen. (Dr.) Zani that we can have a standard form of payment to community workers. This can be good for the Bill because some counties can end up paying Kshs35,000 to community health workers, while others will pay Kshs15, 000 and others less than Kshs5,000. Sen. (Dr.) Zani sits with me in the Committee on Education, where we have seen disparity when it comes to payment of Early Childhood Development (ECD) teachers. Some counties are paying Kshs34,000, others Kshs15,000, while some as ... view