Johnson Arthur Sakaja

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: There is need to strengthen the community health strategy of this country. I pray that the pandemic goes down and we do not have a second wave. Even when dealing with the pandemic, we must still be vigilant enough to leverage on the great network that community health workers have for management and control of our health system. view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: There is need to scale up training. I am glad this Bill provides for that of Community Health Workers (CHVs) to help us in early detection, contact tracing, in psychosocial support to increase financing for health and better investment by counties. County governments must lead in funding CHVs. I am glad that Sen. Omogeni has 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
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: insisted we call them CHVs because once we call them workers it brings some complications. view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: CHVs should be given a minimum of half of the minimum wage as a monthly stipend. This came up out of discussion with them. I am proud as the Senator of Nairobi City County that I pushed for the allocation from an additional Kshs100 million to an addition Kshs3.3 billion. if Ksh1billionis set aside for CHVs we can have more than 10, 000 of them being paid Nairobi City County. view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: That investment in the CHVs will reduce the amount of money being spent in the health docket because we have seen a lot or preventative interventions reduce the burden and the cost of healthcare became we have less need for drugs and hospitalization. Some communicable diseases such as cholera that happen because of lack of cleanliness go down in the community. view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: I advocate and urge the county assemblies as they are budgeting because we are able to do Kshs19 billion the next financial year--- For the Kshs19 billion that is coming to Nairobi City County, set aside Kshs1 billion for CHVs. I have seen and interacted with them especially the ones in Mutu-ini, Dagoretti South, Roysambu, Kibera, Mathare, Mowlem, Embakasi and Pipeline they know what the health challenges are in every part of my county. I am pushing that we set aside a Kshs19 billion from the additional because we were only going to get Kshs100 million. Now we have Kshs3 ... view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: Parents have been given a week and that decision was done too quickly. Anyone with children below the age of 10 years will tell you that in those last six months, many have gained weight. They will need new uniform and a lot of interventions. I think the Committee on Health needs to look into that. Class Eight and Form Four are maybe where they were. With a properly structured community health system they would be able to have known that these are behaviors that have come out in society. We have seen increased cases of teenage pregnancy. There is ... view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, in a county like Nairobi City County where a health centre is very close to you, somebody will go for a very simple thing to get assistance. Conversely, Nairobi needs much more drugs and investment in drugs than Makueni County would because of the number of people. We saw lack of creativity in how these indices were being formulated. I hope the Committee on Health chaired by Sen. (Dr.) Mbito, who is a doctor and understand these issues, will help recalibrate how we inform these indices. This is because any formula used is as good or as ... view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: and Two. I want to acknowledge them and tell them their names have been read out in the Senate of the Republic of Kenya. That boy you thought was naughty, today, he is a Senators because you are a good teacher. Madam Deputy Speaker, this morning we were debating with my cousins on a view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: group. They said that all our parents were teachers. All my mother’s sisters - apart from my mother, of course, she was a teacher as a mother - were teachers; from the late Grace Namasaka to Easter Muhanji, whom I am sure Sen. Wetangula and Sen. Khaniri know. She has been a leading light. She led Bunyore Girls School for the longest time and made sure it is successful as a national school. Today, Mrs. Namaska comes from Sen. Wetangula’s county. They were many; it was a family of 12. Madam Deputy Speaker, we acknowledge the role teachers play, including ... view