Leonard Kipkosgei Sang

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: To practise clinical medicine and surgery as a clinical officer, one requires four years of full-time training, including supervised clinical practice and internship at accredited medical training institutions and hospitals, and then registers with the Clinical Officers Council (COC). After a prescribed number of years in active practice which is around one to two years, they undergo a further one or two years’ residential training programme in order to specialise in any of the approved branches of clinical medicine and surgery such as anaesthesia. Those are officers who help relieve pain when patients are undergoing surgery. Some specialise in paediatrics, ... view
• 15 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: It is said that health and health care are dynamic. Drugs and technology for managing diseases change and hence, the Ministry of Health has a regular review of clinical treatment and management of disease conditions. Diseases patterns also change, with the emergence and re-emergence of diseases. Clinical officers play a pivotal role in the management of those conditions. When there was outbreak of view
• 15 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: in West Africa, Kenya sent a medical team, most of whom were clinical officers. They played an important role in the control. The outbreak of Avian Flu in Uganda as a result of migratory birds from Europe is a latter disease outbreak and clinical officers, being the first technical persons to come into contact with such clients, are being sensitised on detection and management. Non-communicable diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure are also on the increase and require early detection and management at the primary level. Therefore, limiting diseases that clinical officers can manage is unconstitutional and also compromises ... view
• 15 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: This Bill also prescribes the conduct of business and affairs of the council, remuneration of council members, the staff of the council and co-operation with other organizations. Part III of this Bill is on approved training institutions which clinical officers are supposed to attend. Clause 14 is on the powers to enter and inspect the institutions which offer clinical medicine. There is also the appointment of a registrar to keep a register, deal with issues of registration and its effect, among other things. view
• 15 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: The council is also supposed to recruit a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) through a very competitive process. After this Bill is passed, I know that cadre of medicine will get better services. Part IV of this Bill is on provisions relating to private practice. We have clinical officers who have been trained and most of them work in public institutions, both in the national Government and county governments. There are also clinical officers in private practice. We have the qualifications for private practice prescribed for a clinical officer to offer services to the general public. They are there in black ... view
• 15 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: practice as a clinical officer unless such a person is registered and has practised for a prescribed period and holds a valid practising licence. If this Bill is passed by Parliament, I know Kenyans who seek medical services from that cadre of medicine and they will get better services. view
• 15 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Part V is on the establishment of the disciplinary committee. I know we have officers who are doing a very wonderful job. They have been mentored well and are offering services to the public. We may also have a few who probably engage in malpractices and when caught, they are supposed to appear before the disciplinary committee. The composition of the committee is prescribed to include the chairman of the Kenya Clinical Officers Association, who shall be the chairman of the committee, the Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Health or a designated representative, two clinical officers not being members ... view
• 15 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: We also have prescribed disciplinary powers of the committee so that it does not go overboard. Clinical officers who make mistakes and deem not to have received justice will have somewhere else to go. That is why the powers of the committee are prescribed. We also have financial provisions and they will improve things. In the First Schedule, there is provision for business and affairs of the council and vacation of office by members. The establishment of committees of the council and sub-committees is prescribed and their membership. view
• 15 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: In the Third Reading, we intend to move some amendments because there are some clauses which are faulty such as the ailments which a clinical officer licensed to engage in private practice is permitted to treat. We are in concurrence with the Ministry that medicine and the world is changing. For the conditions which clinical officers are supposed to treat to be indicated here is very offensive because diseases are changing. Several years back, we used to have conditions which were very different from today’s conditions. For example, we have the emergence of Human Immuno-deficiency Virus/Acquired Immuno-deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS). I ... view
• 15 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: The Fourth Schedule is on drugs and equipments for which prescriptions may be issued by a clinical officer. Diseases and drugs are changing. For example, chloroquine used to treat malaria in a very short time, but it has become obsolete. We have several other generations of drugs and now there is a new drug for treating malaria. I know in the Third Reading, the offensive clauses in the Fourth Schedule indicating drugs which clinical officers are supposed to prescribe will be deleted. This will allow the Clinical Officers Council, in consultation with the Ministry of Health, to come up with ... view