Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2311 to 2320 of 3161.

• 10 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Therefore, there is need for regulation in training, registration, certifying and use of equipment and maintenance. This Bill brings all those components. It is proposing a board, training, financing and practice in this area. view
• 10 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: However, as I support the Bill, there are areas that we need to look at very carefully. To begin with, the very important part is the relationship between this Board and the Board of The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 10 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Engineers. I wish Hon. Gumbo was here. I think he is probably somewhere in the House. I would suggest that when we have members of this Board, it may be important that a member from the Engineers’ Board sits in it because the relationship is important and critical. view
• 10 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: The other area that we need to look at is conflicts that are likely to arise with this. The Departmental Committee on Health has looked at this. There are existing laws and we now have the Nursing Council and the Pharmacy and Poisons Board. In all those areas, because of lack of clear structures, there are sections of the laws that relate to equipment. What is likely to happen is that you may have a conflict where the Nursing Council will want to regulate this area particularly on equipment. The Pharmacy and Poisons Board is currently requesting that they regulate ... view
• 10 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: I am happy that Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo has come. I was saying before he came that if this board is in place, I would propose that a member from the Engineers’ Board sits on it. view
• 10 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: The other area we need to look at very carefully is private practice. As things stand now, most of the biomedical engineers are employees of health facilities or business people who bring in the equipment. If they are going to go into private practice, we need to look very carefully at what exactly we mean by private practice in this case. Who is going to make the payment? Is it the institutions? Is it the businessmen? How are the patients going to be protected in this area? view
• 10 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: I have looked at Clause 22. It looks at regulating the human resource, but I have not seen how exactly it is going to ask what exactly is being practised and where. As I said, this will straddle from engineering to medicine. So, we have to be quite clear what we are going to do in that area. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is the issue of funding. Part IV of this Bill proposes that funds that will be used to manage the proposed board will come from the fees paid. Do we have enough people to raise enough money ... view
• 17 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the nomination of Dr. Muraguri. As the Leader of the Majority Party has said, we now have a full complement of technically qualified people to run this Ministry. view
• 17 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: I do not see the credentials of Dr. Muraguri on paper. He worked under me and apart from those papers, I know what he can do. I recommended him for many things and at no time did I feel disappointed. He performed very well. I am really confident that Dr. Muraguri and Dr. Mailu will both perform well because both of them are competent. Let me say what the Leader of the Majority Party took out of my mouth, so to speak. We cannot talk about healthcare until everybody in this country can walk into a health facility and go ... view
• 16 Dec 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Deputy Speaker. view