Hellen Chelangat Chepkwony

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: With that, I support the Bill. Thank you. view
• 10 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for recognising the gender aspect. I stand to support the HELB Bill. I want to congratulate the Government for introducing HELB. This is because most of our children come from very poor families and this Board has really helped them secure higher education. view
• 10 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: I would like to say that the formula they use to give loans to students is not right. Sometimes you will find students who apply for loans are not successful but the HELB does not give reasons why they were not given. I think the way they scrutinise these students is totally unfair. Because we will now include the students in that Board, I pray that it will scrutinise those students and inform the unsuccessful applicants in advance. This is because right now, it takes too long for a student to know that he or she has not secured a ... view
• 11 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand here to support the Water Bill. As you know, water is essential in our lives. We know very well that parts of our country lack water while others have some water. For example, where I come from, we have water and forests. However, people in that area do not benefit because there is no law which guarantees them water in their homes. For example, all the water that emanates from the Mau catchment area drains off to Egypt, where it is utilised properly because there is legislation about water use. Egypt is ... view
• 11 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: cooking food and washing clothes, amongst other uses. All this is caused by our failure to mange water resources in this country. We do not have proper laws to help us have sufficient water in our homes. In Kenya, there is a lot of water. For example, you find that people living along Tana River have no food because there is no proper irrigation system. If we adopt an irrigation system, we will produce enough food in this country. Even herdsmen will not fight for water because they will be having enough water. It is a big shame for the ... view
• 1 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Yes, hon. Speaker. view
• 1 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I have a public petition by Barnabas Bargoria on complacency by the Chief Pharmacist and Secretary to the Pharmacy and Poisons Board. Hon. Speaker, on behalf of Barnabas Bargoria, a citizen of Kenya and resident of Eldoret, I draw the attention of the House to the following: THAT, aware that one of the key functions of the Chief Pharmacist of the Pharmacy and Poisons Board is to regulate the quality and ensure that drugs imported conform to the prescribed standards of quality, safety and efficacy for human consumption; THAT, laxity and gross failure by the Chief ... view
• 1 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: THAT, the drug was subsequently tested by the National Quality Control Laboratory and was found to be harmful since it did not conform to the prescribed quality, safety and efficacy standards; THAT, this contravenes Article 43(1)(a) of the Constitution which provides that every person is entitled to the highest attainable standard of health, including the right to health care services; THAT, the Chief Pharmacist lodged a case against the employees of the dispensing chemist at the Resident Magistrate’s Court in Eldoret as Case No.4663 of 2009: Republic verses Nawaz Gulam and William Chumba; THAT, the recurrent failure by the Chief ... view
• 1 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: (i) intervenes to ensure that the petitioner’s plight is addressed and urgent measures instituted to protect Kenyans who are unknowingly purchasing and consuming drugs that do not conform to the prescribed standards of quality, safety and efficacy, and view
• 1 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: (ii) recommends that the Ministry of Health urgently puts in place measures that will guard against the manufacture or importation of drugs that do not conform to the prescribed standards of quality, safety and efficacy. And your petitioner will ever pray. Hon. Speaker, we know that there are very many patients who have died not because of the diseases they were ailing from but due to the poor quality of the drugs that have been imported. Therefore, my prayer and that of the petition is to make sure that we get proper medication for our patients. I lost my husband ... view