Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Call to Action No.4 says, ‘coordinate county level mapping available business, particularly for women’. This country and many developing countries will not move until we mobilise women in rural areas. They do business with no training and with no market surveys. Women run the village economy. They own and start the markets. We need to empower them at that level. view
• 16 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: No.10 is on access to social protection. The burden bearers in poverty are women in rural areas. When the children are sick, starving, when there is no water or electricity, who carries the burden? It is the women. When we set up social protection, looking after orphans, getting healthcare for the sick, we should be aware that the people who carry these burdens are women. So, we should involve them on that. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 16 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Call to Action No.13 says: “Set up a framework for localised and decentralised mechanisms”. Nothing works if it is not monitored. Therefore, we must put in place a monitoring mechanism and this must be streamlined in all the ministries. view
• 16 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: The issue of widows has been talked about. On availability of comprehensive services for women and girls affected by violence, we have to realise that now it is a real agenda issue and even men are affected. I call upon Hon. (Ms.) Wahome to ensure that all the calls to actions in the Report are mainstreamed in the various ministries, through KEWOPA. They should be developed into policies and then into programmes that can be implemented. We will then have a meaningful outcome to these meeting that we attend like the CSW. Thank you. view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to talk about the serious problem of vesico-vaginal fistula. This is a serious problem that arises from difficult and prolonged labour, which causes damage to the bladder and to the vagina, therefore causing a direct connection between the urinary bladder and The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: the vagina. Therefore, urine, henceforth, moves directly from the bladder into the vagina and out without any control. Affected women continuously leak urine and they cannot control it. If it happens backwards, the same happens with the rectum and so; once again, faeces pass out in the same way through the vagina. Because of that, women suffer terrible social problems. They are wet all the time. They try to dress appropriately, but the urine continues to leak and they have a terrible smell. Because of that, they get frequent infections. view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: That aside, the social stigma associated with it leads to many married women to be divorced. Often nobody says why. Even the women themselves hide this. Therefore, the social suffering may even be greater than the physical suffering. It is a big problem. Four out of 1,000 women who deliver get into this problem basically because they had difficult labour and took a long time to deliver, therefore, damaging the structures in the birth canal. That is what happens. It is directly as a result of poor healthcare, particularly obstetrics care. In a few cases, it may be damage due ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I support that we should have a programme that deals with it. We need data and there is a process to get it, so that all women that are affected are in a programme and can be taken care of. More importantly, this is a preventable condition. If we have proper obstetrics care, attending ante-natal clinics, delivering in situations where caesarean section can be done, this should not happen. I assure you that if we can go into universal healthcare, where every woman can deliver in a hospital, and where caesarean section can be done - and it can be ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: So, as much as we put a lot of emphasis in starting a programme of training surgeons, the most important way to address this would be to improve our ante-natal and obstetrics care so that no woman gets it. Programmes such as Linda Mama will go a long way in eliminating this problem. I do not think we should have a big programme to its treatment. We need a programme of eliminating it. If every woman delivers in a hospital and gets appropriate care, fistula will be a thing of the past. That is where we should be. We should ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am almost done. view