Masitsa Naomi Shiyonga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Feb 2022 in Senate: I have mentioned saving on foreign exchange. We can save much more money that we use to import, for example, rice, if we utilize our rice irrigation schemes. We will even awaken our labour market. Our young people will stop going abroad to look for jobs because they will be the same ones who will work in our irrigation schemes. Most of Israel is just arid land. Kenya has both arid and semi-arid areas. If we practice what Israel does, which is what this amendment supports, we will be in a better position. Our educated youth who are jobless will ... view
• 11 Jan 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir. I want to wish everyone a happy new year, including other Kenyans who are watching the Senate proceedings right now. Pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order No.41(1) of the Senate, I beg to move that the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No.53 of 2021) be read a Second Time. Mr. Speaker Sir, with this Bill, there are a few amendments that I proposed as an individual. During my time in the Committee on Health, whenever officials of the county assemblies or the county governments appeared before the Committee, they used to ... view
• 11 Jan 2022 in Senate: We were informed, as the Committee, that the Authority has never been able to meet the requests. As a result, the counties are forced to supplement supplies through other sources, including the Mission for the Essential Drugs and Supplies (MEDS). We can recall that in 2019, the National Assembly passed the Health (Amendment) Bill without the concurrence of the Senate. The amendments were then proposed to favor the KEMSA Act, that is now law. As a Senate, we look into matters health since this is a devolved function. My amendments are in Section 4 whereby we seek to repeal a ... view
• 11 Jan 2022 in Senate: In Kenya, KEMSA has regional supplies centres where we have what we call the push system. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you have been a governor. You experienced many problems when it came to purchasing these drugs because the KEMSA Bill bypassed the Senate. We were not given an opportunity to look at this particular Bill before it was assented to. There was no concurrence from the Senate. view
• 11 Jan 2022 in Senate: I urge that even as Members contribute to this Bill, that we approve it so that counties are allowed to procure the drugs and medical supplies without any constraints or the bureaucracy that we are seeing at KEMSA. Counties should be free to procure without spending a lot of taxpayer’s money and enriching a few people in Kenya. view
• 11 Jan 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, when most counties appear before the committees, and especially the Committee on Health, most of the statements that eventually come before the House are about the supply and shortage of drugs, and provision of equipment. My view
• 11 Jan 2022 in Senate: proposal and prayer is that we repeal the section that constraints counties from equipping their facilities. They are the ones with these facilities, see these patients, have the data and know when they lack equipment. view
• 11 Jan 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, when we look at health as a devolved function, let us also look into the push system that is applied by KEMSA whereby when the drugs are procured, most of these drugs are given to the county governments or county facilities through a push system when they are just about to expire. They do very little to enable the patients get the certified services that they require. When KEMSA realise that these medicines or products are just about to expire, this is when they are pushed to the facilities. view
• 11 Jan 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, what I am saying here is that the push system that is put in place by KEMSA and the bureaucracy that is there delays the process. Yes, the counties are required to request for the drugs or the products they want. However, most of these products are given to the facilities, but the system that is in KEMSA delays the whole process. Hence it makes it cumbersome for the county governments to facilitate their patients or what is required at the county level through their facilities, to make sure that the patients are treated and attended to ... view
• 11 Jan 2022 in Senate: You are in the pharmaceutical professional. You know when you request for a product, it is supposed to be utilized immediately because we are dealing with patients and most of them are emergency cases. I am talking about the whole procurement process; it is cumbersome and slow. By the time the medicines reach the clients, it is late. The procurement system delays the process. view