Dr. James Gesami

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) My Ministry has already posted two nurses to Emutsuli dispensary and will consider deploying a clinical officer once the on-going process of recruitment is finalized. The other facilities that have been built through the CDF are not operational. They are Ebusubi, Mumboha, Ebukanga and Emusenjeli dispensaries. They are not gazetted at the moment. However, they will be considered for gazettement in this Financial Year - 2009/2010. (b) The Ministry has already posted clinical officers to Ebusiratsi, Ipali, Edwanda and Esiarambatsi health centers. However, Musitinyi Dispensary will be considered along with others for ... view
• 8 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 8 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I answered a similar Question in this House some time ago. I indicated that there were over 1,000 facilities across the country built by money from the CDF and they have not been gazetted. I also indicated that I had instructed all the Medical Officers of Health (MoHs) to inspect them for gazettement so view
• 8 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have answered this Question before. I have said that we have about 36,000 nurses in this country. We have 17,000 nurses in Government facilities and another 17,000 in private facilities. We need 76,000 nurses to operate optimally. At the moment, we have about 6,000 nurses in the country, but we do not have money to recruit them. Indeed, we can only be provided money by this House. Therefore, we are unable to recruit more nurses and post them to these facilities. view
• 8 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we shall begin recruitment as soon as we receive the money from the Treasury. This exercise is normally done at the provincial level. view
• 3 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. view
• 3 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: The Ministry has taken the following steps:- view
• 3 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: (i) Set up Tobacco Control Act Operationalization Committee to prepare the implementation plan for the Act. view
• 3 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: (ii) Issued a notice of nine months which expired on 8th January, 2009 for the tobacco manufacturers to implement various requirements of the Act such as labeling of packages with health warning. view
• 3 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: (iii) Sensitized the public through the print and electronic media. This involved schools and other civic society organizations to mobilise communities to understand the inherent dangers that tobacco consumption or smoking has on their health. view