Dr. Naomi Shaban

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: I want to point out that it is our responsibility, as the National Assembly to make sure that health services in this country run and run properly. There is no way we can 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
• 2 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: have a working nation if we do not have a healthy nation. We require a health nation. Wherever the governors and the county executives are doing, they should be able to work with us and with the Executive in the national Government to make sure that health services work. view
• 2 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: I beg to second and request my colleagues to support these amendments. view
• 26 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to say that I join the Chair of Health Committee. Being a member of that Committee, we have looked at this issue and we have seen it as a big problem. A healthy nation is a working nation. We cannot be burying our heads in the sand and pretend that all is well. What is going on in the health sector is something that we really need to look at very seriously, and not look at it like it is a very simple thing because it is more complicated than what people ... view
• 26 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: The health sector should have been one of the sectors that should not have been politicized. It should have been devolved piece meal not wholesale. I know the governors were very keen on this. They thought they will be doing a service but this is not a very easy service to manage. It should have been done bit by bit so that by the end of the three transitional periods, we would be able to achieve maximum gains. When the Committee of Experts was in the process of making the Constitution, I imagine they put the three The electronic version ... view
• 26 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: year transition period because health sector is important. We have a very big problem. A number of people think their governors have done very little. view
• 26 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: The Temporary Deputy Speaker, all former provincial general hospitals, referred to as Level 5 hospitals are facing problems. It is a time bomb which is just waiting to explode. In this financial year, a lot of money was given through grants to those Level 5 hospitals. Unfortunately, the governors chose not to ensure that money gets to those hospitals. We visited those hospitals but there was no money granted to them, yet governors were proudly telling us how they intend to build new hospitals. Our recommendation would be to look at those hospitals and make sure that the former provincial ... view
• 26 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: The Temporary Deputy Speaker, we hear that grant was sent to the governor and he only gave Level 5 hospitals 10 per cent of the total allocation. The ones who give more, they only manage to give 15 per cent. My advice in such a case would be that the National Treasury recovers this money and sends it to the right institutions. Money given in form of grant should be used in hospitals as intended. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other thing that I really want to talk about is the issue of runaway medical professionals. Our medical professionals are ... view
• 26 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: You have heard our development partners like the Global Fund giving money to the civil society because they are frustrated. They are frustrated not because they do not trust the Government but it is because of the confusion in the health sector. They have been giving money to the Ministry of Health over the years. This Fund has decided to give Kenya money but they cannot channel it through the national Government. Why is this case? This is because the Government does not have a way of supervising those institutions. This is one way of putting money where it will ... view
• 26 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: It is sad that we are here today, instead of looking devolution as a plus, we are looking at it as a negative on the health sector. I want to urge my colleagues that we sit down together with the Senate to see how best we can come up with the way forward so that we can sort the issue of the health sector. If we do not do that, our people will die and suffer. If you go out there, you will find that there is no medicine on the shelves and the pharmacies are empty. The electronic version ... view