James Orengo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1271 to 1280 of 4273.

• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me a chance to contribute to this Motion. view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: Of all the devolved functions to counties, health is the most important one and well-funded, although it can never be enough. The Constitution, the way it is set out, is that only on issues of policy would the national Government to some extent be involved. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: However, this is a function whereby the devolved units, being the counties, should demonstrate that they are up to the task. view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you go out there and look at mission hospitals, which are operated without tax-payers money, some of them having operated for so many years, they are doing service and rendering medical care to a scale that one can appreciate, particularly because they are not funded by the public finance. Some of these hospitals such as Maseno Mission Hospital, Chogoria Hospital and Kikuyu Hospital which has got an Eye Unit; have been organized in such a way that they have been able to offer healthcare to people at the local level. They have been able to reach ... view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: If you go to many county hospitals, there is very little innovation. They just run the hospitals the way they were being run as district hospitals. There is no major difference in the manner in which they run health centres and dispensaries and any other health delivery units at the local level. I know that we can have all that is required, including medicine and medical equipment. However, without well trained people even for primary health care, effective medical services and care cannot be given at the local level in the counties and in the wards. Therefore, this call to ... view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: I hope that when we pass this Motion as I know we will pass it, these deliberations and resolution of the House should be sent to the CoG to appreciate our concerns as the protector of counties. This is because most of the time, the Senate is only useful to the county governments when we are fighting for more resources to go into the counties. However, when we are demanding for services to be provided, demanding accountability or insisting that certain things be done along the lines, for example, that Sen. Nyamunga has recommended in this Motion, very little action ... view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: Training sometimes is not something that is expensive. The CoG can sit down and find out how they can organize a way of setting up facilities, particularly targeting personnel who would be required by county health facilities. A lot of the facilities that are being created even at the local level you will find that some of them are being run by the national Government. An example is the MTCs which are now coming up in almost every constituency. Those are being funded by the National Government. How do you The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for ... view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: train people who can help in advocacy of how to conduct oneself or how to attain primary health care? This is the kind of training whereby one county on its own or two to three counties coming together can easily achieve this goal as recommended by Sen. Nyamunga. view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, district hospitals had similar challenges, but at least at that time, the Government was not accountable to the people. At Independence, our leaders used to talk about the three major challenges that faced the Government then. The nation was to fight the three challenges which were poverty, ignorance and disease. Reading through this Motion, some of the to-do lists can be elicited from the ideas as stated by Sen. Nyamunga in the Motion. It is often a matter of concern when you are in the village and somebody is taken ill. For example, in Siaya County, ordinarily, ... view
• 17 Oct 2019 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view