All parliamentary appearances
Entries 411 to 420 of 1046.
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1 Aug 2019 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, we are moving to an era of efficiency and effectiveness. We are talking about access, and in order to access these services, we have physical, linguistic and periodic access, which is about timeliness in terms that access. There are all manner of access. Even in other areas of services like justice, we talk about access to justice. Here, we are talking about access to quality health. In order for us to 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.
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1 Aug 2019 in Senate:
inbuilt this desire to have our people access health, we must look at how efficiently and how cost effective we to deliver it.
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1 Aug 2019 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, Information Communication Technology (ICT) makes it very accessible. It can shorten the distance between results in one laboratory with advice, diagnosis or prescription that you receive from a doctor who is miles away. That is likely to save life, money and so many things. That way, we will reduce these endless queues and the hospital beds which are occupied by sick and suffering people can be used for other reasons.
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1 Aug 2019 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, my county has only one person I would call a physician. We have four general medical practitioners in the entire Migori County with 1.1 million people. We have only one specialist, a gynaecologist, and he has to be in touch with everybody. I assure you that in our county, we are very active, because we keep on giving birth to many children, and that is a blessing to us. We are yet to deal with things called family planning, because we still need many children.
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1 Aug 2019 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, with the limited number of specialists we have, tele- health, tele-medicine or virtual health is a must. If we walk this path and ensure this is done, I assure you that our people and all Kenyans will feel the effects of devolution and access to services of the highest standard. They will then feel that they are part of a healthy nation. Without building a healthy nation, all these developments that we talk about are theoretical and of no use. That is true until we assure every Kenyan that should anything happen or threaten to happen to ...
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1 Aug 2019 in Senate:
With those many remarks, I congratulate my sister, Sen. Pareno. She is my party leader, and I hope that she will grow to a better office when the time comes. The year 2022 is on the way, and I wish you and Sen. Pareno well. I am more comfortable being led by ladies than men.
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1 Aug 2019 in Senate:
Thank you.
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31 Jul 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I pressed the button inadvertently. I think I got excited when Sen. Wetangula was speaking.
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30 Jul 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I congratulate Sen. Malalah for raising this issue. Those who have walked the journey of reform know that we have been looking at the ways and means of having one Kenya that recognizes diversity and plurality of origin, belief and colour. The answer is almost out there that the Committee will find out that there is no even distribution of opportunities. More importantly, I would like the Community to look at how to solve this problem. The Constitution and other documents are very clear as to what we should have in this country. We are likely to ...
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30 Jul 2019 in Senate:
Thank you.
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