Dr. James Gesami

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am not misleading the House. The truth of the matter is that I have got a document to table from the WHO. The maternal mortality rate for Uganda is 800 per 100,000 live births. In fact, in Tanzania it is 1,500 per 100,000 live births. view
• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Absolutely. view
• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: I will table it, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want hon. Members to get me very clearly, that, in fact, I am not saying that the fact that the maternal mortality rate in Uganda or Tanzania is higher means that we are doing well. That is not what I am saying. I am saying that our figure is 488 per 100,000 live births. In this part of Sub-Saharan Africa, we are doing fairly well. Our main constraint in this part of the world is human resource and financial aspects. view
• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have clearly indicated what percentage of improvement this country has achieved over the last decade in terms of improvement of maternal mortality. The facts are in black and white. I will table them here, so that all hon. Members can look at them. I am saying that we have not done the best. We would like to do the best in improvement of maternal mortality. For example, in Germany it is 20 mothers per 100,000 live births. In Brazil it is about 200. But in this part of Sub-Saharan Africa we are making progress. The major ... view
• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think hon. Dr. Khalwale must have practised long time ago. We do not encourage any more traditional birth attendants because they have done a lot of mess in this country to our mothers. We are now saying that we want skilled birth attendants with modern knowledge. As a matter of fact, we have abolished traditional birth attendants and we do not include it in our curriculum any more. view
• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I did mention that we have a community health strategy that we have launched all over the country. Every village has got a committee with trained manpower to know how many children have been born in that village; how many pregnant mothers are there; how many elderly men are there, so that they are provided with the necessary assistance as we go forward. view
• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: So, we will continue training the local manpower and technicians with a team leader, so that every village in this country will be provided with health services as soon as they want. view
• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have the privilege of being in this field for sometime before I changed over to politics. view
• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: I want to tell the House that the truth of the matter is that there are so many maternal deaths in the slums. But the truth of the matter is that we have now put in place a strategy on family planning. Most of the slum families have at least five to ten children and you cannot sustainably have a child every year. Definitely, they get very weak. Immuno suppression is also around. Therefore, we have these large numbers of mothers dying. But we have put in place measures that I have enumerated in my answer to address these issues. ... view