Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: must reinstate its administrative capacity to remove from amongst its staff those that it deems to have not done a good job. The regulatory bodies will then go and check whether it was a professional problem or not. That is the work of the regulatory bodies, but administrative action must be taken. I am pained to say this because some of them are my colleagues, but I still believe that the nurse who did not attend the handing over, then took a file, called out a name and a confused patient responded and was labeled, must take responsibility. There have ... view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: I agree with the Chair that we need to look at the MoU. I think it can still work. But in my view, and I will say this and many people will not agree with me, it has come a time when we should think. Should KNH not be a teaching hospital for the University of Nairobi (UoN), run from the UoN? That is so that the director of KNH responds directly to the head at the university and not a situation where the director of the KNH is responsible to the Ministry of Health and the Dean of Students ... view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: The life of people is important than the time we are spending here. If I only do this and I go home for the next two weeks, I will be okay. The issue of devolution has told you these things have brought all systems together. Everything is coming and we are asking whether this is what we call chicken coming home to roost. We have an adversarial relationship between county governments and the national Government. It is not necessary. We are serving the same people. The Ministry of Health is for standards and policy. At this point, I do not ... view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: friend?” Not to go and load it over the governors. The Ministry should just say: “You are doing this. These are the standards and policies we have. Do we agree on them that we are all working together?” I know I cannot finish. I support this Report, but say I still insist that we did not go far enough. I do not see how the top management and the nurses go scot free. I have a lot of sympathy. If I was a judge, I would have looked at mitigating factors like being sick and so on, but you cannot ... view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: On a point of order. view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: There is information that is not correct. Hon. Speaker, there is a professional regulation. What it regulates is very clear. It regulates professional integrity, technically and administrative issues. The owner of a hospital can take administrative action. That is not prohibited by the regulations at all. That is important. view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: I have not heard about it. view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: I rise to support this Motion. I want to say something that was said by Hon. Iringo earlier. We have these Private Members’ Motions every Wednesday: Throughout the year and throughout the five-year terms. Very few of them are implemented. We need to look at this as a House and see whether it is time well spent. We have a Committee on Implementation. Before we even really blame the Executive, we must ask what our Committee on Implementation is doing. This same Motion or a very similar one has been in this House before. If the Committee on Implementation was ... view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: otherwise, we might be using Wednesday mornings for our constituents to see that we are contributing. We should do more than that. view