Dr. James Gesami

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 71 to 80 of 428.

• 27 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have already answered that question. I said that Ijara and Hulugho districts will each receive an ambulance this financial year. view
• 27 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have indicated here before that we are working under obvious budget ceilings. However, we try to provide to each facility the amount that we are allocated by Treasury. Therefore, we will continue asking Treasury to provide us with more funds to enable us provide services in all parts of the country. view
• 27 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have been given this information by the Medical Officer of Health (MOH), Ijara. The MOH knows the consequences of lying to us. It would mean that we are lying to this House and to the nation. Therefore, we will find out how many nurses are actually in Masalani. view
• 19 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I hereby table the details of the nurses recruited through the ESP in Bura, Galole and Garsen constituencies and the facilities to which they were posted and their respective dates of posting. (b) Further, the current shortage in the respective health facilities in the three constituencies is 49 nurses. Bura has 18 nurses; Galole has 11nurses; and Garsen has 20 nurses. My Ministry was unable to get the required number of nurses during the ESP recruitment because there were no nurses from the local community which has affected service delivery. In case ... view
• 19 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: We have recruited eight nurses in Bura. We forwarded their names to the Public Service Commission to allocate them personal numbers and we are still waiting. We are following up the matter and, as soon as they get their personal numbers, we will post them. view
• 19 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, indeed, we have a shortage of nurses in most constituencies. But there are those nurses who want to work in towns. Some nurses want to work in Nairobi and in private hospitals and we cannot force them to work for the Government. So, we may be having some extra nurses in major urban centres, but they do not want to take jobs in the rural areas. So, we want to train a critical mass of a number of nurses and send them to various areas where they are required. view
• 19 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is true that we have got a shortage of nurses in this country. Three years ago, I answered a Question here where I said that this country requires a minimum of 75,000 nurses. At the moment, we have only 36,000 nurses both in public and private hospitals. Therefore, we are far away from getting the number that we want. Our nursing schools are over-stretched. The lecturers and the teaching staff are not able to cope with the numbers that we admit in various Medical Training Centres (MTCs). Nevertheless, as a Government, we are trying to get ... view
• 19 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, some of those courses were withdrawn because of lack of staff to teach them. view
• 19 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are not able to reinstate the course because we do not have the teaching staff. view
• 19 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to say that we are in the process of training staff to teach those courses and, as soon as we train them,we shall reinstate those courses. view