Dr. James Gesami

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 391 to 400 of 428.

• 9 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am a physician and I want to assure the House that we normally do not allow female and male patients to share wards, except children under the age of nine years and in the mortuary. Adults and children above 12 years are put in separate wards. The ward in Kitise Health Centre is quite big. It has been partitioned to separate female and male patients. I do not know what kind of partitioning has been done, but I know that the health centre has requested for money from the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) to do proper ... view
• 9 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this partitioning has been there for the last one year. But I am told that the partition--- view
• 9 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am told that it has been there for one year. I cannot give you the exact date. view
• 30 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. The Government is in the process of recruiting additional health workers to be distributed to the needy facilities within the country. Nthambiro, Kiraone and Kiegoi health centres will be considered alongside other facilities in the country. view
• 30 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is unfortunate that we will continue, as a Ministry, answering Questions about the shortage of health workers. For about ten years, the Government never recruited civil servants because of the World Bank and the IMF. This year, we are recruiting about 800 nurses. The 800 nurses for the whole country are not enough. Its my wish that we could look at the Vote of the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation individually, so that we can see what this House can do for us in terms of asking the Treasury to allocate more resources to ... view
• 30 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether that was a question or a comment. However, we have actually requested for more money to employ more health workers. The lack of nurses in this country is not only limited to the hon. Member's constituency. It is actually all over the country. We would wish to get money to employ more nurses to work in our health facilities. view
• 30 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, health workers are shared between the two 3172 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES October 30, 2008 Ministries. The Ministry of Medical Services has health workers in provincial, district and sub- district hospitals. The Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation has nurses and health workers in dispensaries and health centres. However, we do not have enough funds to recruit the required number of nurses. I know for sure that the CDF and the Government have actually constructed several health facilities, but we lack the human resource. We are discussing this issue with the Public Service Commission, the Ministry of State ... view
• 30 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you will realise that, that is a different Question. However, the 800 nurses are based on the available resources. In other words, we can only employ 800 nurses this year. As I have already said, there is no criteria of saying how many nurses we are going to employ. In fact, we need over 10,000 nurses to provide health services in this country. view
• 30 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is no single health institution in this country which has enough staff. Last week, I answered a similar Question here about Ijara. You will realise that some of the nurses that we had sent to Ijara resigned. They said that they could not work there. As the Government, we shall try our best to continue recruiting and posting nurses to those areas when funds become available. view
• 30 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to indicate to the hon. Member that we require about 34,000 nurses for both public and private sectors in this country to give proper services. At the moment, we have about 16,000 nurses in the two Ministries. view