Dr. James Gesami

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I apologise to the hon. Member. I have two Questions and I had confused the answers. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: (a) My Ministry has not established the cause of death of the four expectant mothers in Turbi Location of Marsabit North District since post-mortem examination was not done. The mothers died in the manyattas and were buried the same day in accordance to the Islamic religious practices. However, laboratory results of samples taken from 24 expectant mothers attending ante-natal clinics by a team of health officers who visited the area revealed that six of them tested positive for malaria parasites and none tested positive for brucellosis and typhoid as was suspected. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: (b) My Ministry has put in place the following measures to avoid future recurrence of such incidences:- view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: (i) Provision of long-lasting insecticides treated nets. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: (ii) Intensive public health campaigns to expectant mothers to encourage and improve attendance of ante-natal clinics. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: (iii) Public health education awareness programmes on preventive measures against malaria Fe bruary 24, 2009 PARLIAMENTAR Y DEBATES view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me assure the hon. Member that we are in the process of recruiting staff through the Public Service Commission (PSC). As soon as we recruit them, we will post a clinical officer to that health centre. Secondly, due to financial constraints, we are unable to get an ambulance for the health centre this year, but we will provide an ambulance to the health centre in the next financial year. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I said, it is very difficult to give a percentage. I have already indicated that there were 26 expectant mothers attending ante-natal clinic. These are the ones who were attending the ante-natal clinic. The four died before we could ascertain the cause of the deaths. If you really would like to have a percentage, it will be 4 out of 26. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we, as a Ministry, do not encourage traditional birth attendants. We know for sure that in the past, we have allowed them to attend to expectant mothers, but we have discouraged the practice because they were doing more harm to them than good. view