Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the next essence of this amendment, I have said through a planned progressive program, is to provide assistive devices. I know, from my experience, that what the Government will do is, if you say that everybody is going to get assistive devices and you say it should be done immediately without any program, the first reaction will be that we do not have enough money. As Hon. Dennitah Ghati eloquently puts it, assistive devices are very many starting with wheelchairs, for example, crutches, calipers, prosthetic limbs, hearing aids, sunscreens like we provide for people with albinism ... view
• 26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: all those, the fear of the Principal Secretary and the National Treasury will be: Can we have enough money if people with disability decide that all of them need motorised wheelchairs? The advantage of saying planned and progressive program is that they find it easy to say, for example, in the first year, we will provide clutches, calipers, prosthetic limbs or hearing aids for free. Then the next year we can say that we can move on and provide wheelchairs, so that as the time goes by, it is easier to implement. I know, from my experience, the Executive normally ... view
• 26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: I ask Hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi to second. view
• 26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to speak to this Motion. I want to thank Hon. Kioni for the amendment that has helped us to direct actions. I feel vindicated; today, as I heard many people speaking, I have a feeling that if they were with me as we were listening to the health workers, they would have cried with me. When we hear the number of deaths every day, we are losing people with families. They are not gunny bags that we are counting. They are leaving children, wives and husbands behind. We move ... view
• 26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, COVID-19 has shown us that our health system is weak. It has also shown that corruption eats through the system and kills people. I want to state that the corrupt and businesspeople who are involved in this have killed more people than the doctors’ strike can kill. That is why I cried, but today I am strong. I believe that crying for your people is 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
• 26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: not a sin or a weakness. This matter touches on the four main systems of our health system, namely; financing, human resource, health commodities and governance. Money was there, but it was not used. KEMSA procured all the commodities that we have heard about. There was poor communication between the Ministry, the board and the CEO. We have made a recommendation to that extent. When we have looked at those and look at these recommendations, PPEs are supporting our people. The health workers are dying and they do not have group life cover. Some health workers do not have insurance ... view
• 26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: We must look after our health workers. Hon. Pukose spoke to this and I want to agree that we need the Health Services Commission, whether it is in the Constitution or statutory. We will make it a health constitution that will manage our health workers. I think the counties will agree that they need some help in managing health workers, and this Commission will help us do that. view
• 26 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I support the Report. view
• 19 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to respond to the President’s Address on the state of our nation. The President correctly said the nation is strong, resilient and breaming with the promise of an even brighter future tomorrow. He also correctly identified the major challenges that we face as a country. I will only consider one of the major challenges; the challenge of the Coronavirus pandemic and the implementation of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) - our attempt to get every Kenyan to access healthcare that they need, when they need it and at a ... view