Dr. James Gesami

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: I am most obliged, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 10 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I undertake to answer this Question in the next sitting. view
• 10 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: I am most obliged, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 10 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Next Question, Mr. Peter Gitau! view
• 9 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I wish to give a Ministerial Statement on the acute watery diarrohea/cholera outbreak in the country as at 7th December, 2009. This Statement was sought by hon. Ekwe Ethuro last Thursday. view
• 9 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the country has been experiencing outbreaks of acute watery diarrohea, including cholera since December 2008. So far, 50 districts across the country have been affected, with a total of 11,370 cases and 259 deaths reported. Out of these, a total of 753 cases have been confirmed as cholera. In the last one month, a total of 4,842 acute watery diarrohea cases with 131 deaths have been reported. During the last one week, 11 districts, namely Turkana South, Turkana Central, Turkana North and East Pokot in the Rift Valley Province, Kamukunji, Kasarani and Starehe in Nairobi, Ruiru in ... view
• 9 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is the second Statement I am making about Cholera in this House. I have indicated to this House before that one of the most critical challenges that we have in the public health is the issue of financing in terms of adequate funding to carry out our mandate. We have done that by presenting our budget to the House. We are also faced with the challenge of lack of human resource, that is, doctors, nurses and clinical officers. We have been able to train a few members of staff. We have about 32,000 nurses in the ... view
• 9 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to donate five minutes to Mr. ole Metito. view
• 9 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Right from the outset, I want to support this motion; I wish to congratulate my friend the Rarienda MP, Eng. Gumbo, for bringing this motion at this time. In fact, it is a motion that should have come yesterday. It is important to appreciate that we in the health sector have always appreciated the work of herbalists. In our policy document of 1994, we have clearly said that traditional medicine, that is herbs, should be recognized by the Ministry of Health, and I believe that, that policy document guides the Health sector up ... view
• 3 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am aware of the problem and I will issue a Ministerial Statement on cholera on Tuesday afternoon. view