Gladwell Jesire Cheruiyot

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• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: overall body that is ratifying colleges which are teaching pharmacy. Such institutions are put in the register. The board regulates the institutions which are teaching pharmacy. Persons from any other institutions which the board does not recognise will not be put in the register of pharmacy. This is done after training. So, I appreciate that the register of recognised practitioners is kept at the Pharmacy and Poisons Board. view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I want to support the amendment. For a long time, it is only degree holders who have been doing the wholesale of pharmacy. But in the real sense, the wholesale of pharmacy is more of business than dispensing. The dispensing part has always been left to diploma holders. So, there is no essence of leaving the technical part of serving the patients to diploma holders and when it comes to the business of selling drugs, which involves moving boxes from one place to another, you bar diploma holders. That is why we said that instead of ... view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I want to support the Leader of the Majority Party in this. It is not good for us to make laws that are going to be one-sided. This will make degree holders the ones the law is catering for. In this case, a dentist is not a diploma holder. So, when we just put dentist and we have not described who a dentist is, unless you want to say that a dentist will include a diploma holder and the council can cater for all. Otherwise, we will have different councils. The electronic version of the Official ... view
• 2 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I would also want to talk about this Bill and specifically on the Pharmacy and Poisons Act, Cap. 244, which is what I understand more. The amendment to Cap 244 has come on time. The Pharmacy and Poisons Board has been operating for a long time in a manner that was not befitting, by not giving out results that we needed. In the current Bill, the Pharmacy and Poisons Board is being led by a registrar. At the same time, the same registrar works for the Ministry of Health as a pharmacist. We have now created ... view
• 2 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: At the same time, we have the issue of agriculture or the drugs that are given to animals. We realised for a very long time that nobody is taking care of the agro vets that we have around. Everybody wakes up in the morning and decides to put up an agro vet. Nobody knows who is doing this because we have not been controlling agro vets. As someone has put it, agro vets are drugs that are manufactured just the same way human drugs are manufactured. For instance, the molecule in tetracycline in human is the same as the one ... view
• 2 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: We also need to know how to store them. For example, people buy Rat and Rat and all types of poisons and keep them. It does not matter where they are. We have been hearing that people are using these drugs to commit suicide. This is because when they are buying, nobody is even aware that the person who is buying has animals to use them on or he is buying to commit suicide. The Health Laws (Amendment) Bill requires the support of all of us because health concerns every one of us. We are consumers of drugs and services ... view
• 2 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Officers Council. They should understand the languages they use because the boards will be made in a way that is similar to the other. view
• 2 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: The Pharmacy and Poisons Board, for a very long time, has been having two bodies inside it that control medicine. We have been having drug inspectors as stipulated in Cap 244 and others which were created by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board called pharmaceuticals inspectors. We have, therefore, said that it is not in order to have two titles for people who do the same work. We have now decided that we have to merge them so that all of them can have one name. We need to do away with the term “drug inspector” and have them as “pharmaceutical ... view
• 2 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: The other issue is drugs that come into this country. We have been told that illegal practitioners under the Pharmacy and Poisons Board cause adverse effects to consumers. If consumers are going to get the drugs from the wrong hands, we are sure that we are going to make very serious mistakes. At the end of it all, we will kill people. This is the reason we have said that we want to make the charges more punitive, so that quacks can be dealt with. view
• 2 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: It is also important for the people who do not know, that there are two cadres in the Pharmacy and Poisons Board. We have the pharmaceutical technologists and the pharmacists. The pharmacists are degree holders and the pharmaceutical technologists are diploma holders. Diploma holders in this country are the majority. They are the ones who serve people even in the rural areas. They are the ones who are in contact with the people day in, day out. The pharmacists in this country are still few and most of them are in urban areas. They are the ones who are supposed ... view