Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other reason is the increasing life expectancy. People are living longer now than they did before. So, they have a higher chance of getting cancer. If you live long enough, you will get cancer. As life expectancy increases, we get more cases of cancer. view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: When we get the fund, what shall we do? We should focus on awareness: awareness, awareness and awareness. Why do I recommend awareness? First of all, we have to know the other diseases giving us the biggest burden now. Basically, they are about four: cancer of the breast, cancer of the cervix, prostate cancer and gastrointestinal cancer. Cancer of the breasts and cancer of the cervix in women and prostate cancer in men can all be detected very early and stopped from progressing. Cervical cancer has a vaccine now; the Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine which countries like Tanzania have started ... view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: The easiest way of detecting breast cancer in our environment apart from getting a mammography is through breast examination. We should educate all our women on how they can examine their breasts, and with a tongue in the cheek, men can also examine breasts of their spouses for medical purposes, not for other purposes. If we can do that early, any mass in the breast will be examined. If those two measures are taken: vaccination in children for cervical cancer, early examination for cervical cancer and breast cancer, we will cut down the number tremendously. view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: For men, I ask my colleagues here that with medical insurance we have, at least, we should get an annual screening for prostate cancer. Once we get that, we will cut down the prevalence of these cancers by more than 50 per cent. If we were to start that programme today, in ten years, we will be seeing, probably, a quarter of what we have now. view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: I support that cancer be declared a national disaster in order to give it focus and get funds and get a programme geared towards awareness, prevention, early detection and early treatment. Thank you. view
• 29 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to the Third Reading of this Bill. The Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendment) Bill is important, but its purpose is to correct minor errors. However, in this particular one, there was a major amendment proposed in the Pharmacy and Poisons Act. Unfortunately, the Departmental Committee on Health looked at it and made a recommendation that was accepted. In future, I propose that, in the area of Health, when it comes to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, it is important to look at the Health Act. I have noticed that ... view
• 29 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: I support the Third Reading. view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I must start by thanking the Leader of the Majority Party for bringing the Petition. It is not in the spirit of the historic handshake, but he has brought a very important Petition. If you look at Article 54 of our Constitution, it addresses all the issues that we have indicated. That is whether they have access to education, access to buildings and access to lifts. I would probably add for the Leader of the Majority Party that there is a lot more to be done. The Persons with Disabilities Act has laid out what needs ... view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion. The Report on Kenyatta National Hospital exemplifies the problem of the healthcare we have in this country. We have systems failure, failure at management level and failure at individual performance level. All these have been exemplified very well in this Report. To begin with, I will go to the incident that occurred and then state the system problems we have. Basically, what happened is that a nurse who had not attended the handing over was asked to take a patient to theatre. She then took notes and ... view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: The incidence, in terms of system failure, is a problem of human resource. There are few nurses and so much work. That is system failure. The incidence was as a result of failure of management even though there was too much work. All people must attend ward handing-over in the wards. It does not matter. Even if procurement is not right, there must be effort to get at least labels to label patients at the beginning. Those are system failures. Yesterday, our Chair, who has done very well, asked me to second debate on the Report, but I declined. I ... view