Owen Yaa Baya

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• 23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: We will help you to get to the side that I belong. You have our blessings. As you go back to Nakuru, pass our greetings to the people of Nakuru and tell them that you have made the right choice. Welcome my brother. view
• 23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. It is a pleasure to contribute to this Bill. I had done a similar Bill, but I had to give the Committee the opportunity to do it. That notwithstanding, this Bill is long overdue. This country has for many years lost people because of lack of blood. I would like to point a case in which we lost a very new assistant county commissioner in Kilifi because of pregnancy and blood related issues. When she was admitted at the Kilifi County Hospital, she had a baby and then she lost a lot of blood. ... view
• 23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, this Bill provides that county governments will be involved. The Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service will ensure that blood is collected, processed, distributed fairly and transfused in a more professional way. This is very important. I support this Bill that was brought to the House by the Committee. 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
• 23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: The other important thing is the availability of blood. Like the previous speaker has said, currently, we rely on philanthropy of other organisations like the Kenya Red Cross. They collect blood and give it to the Government. When we have the Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service, they will assess the needs to know that this country requires a certain amount of blood. They will also have their drives that will collect enough blood, bank it and then distribute it and make it available to entities that are allowed to distribute and transfuse blood. Therefore, it is very important that we ... view
• 23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: There is also the issue of quality of blood. Many times when blood transfusion takes place, its quality is poor. So, the patient dies because he was given poor quality blood because of the lack of ability to process it. If the Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service is not properly funded as it is currently, then it will not do the tests that are available to look for pathogens and all other materials that can be in the blood. Therefore, they will not classify it as good or bad. What is done currently is that you do blood transfusion and ... view
• 23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: I would like to make another contribution on funding. The blood services that we have currently lack adequate funding. Because of that, they do not have enough vehicles to collect blood. When I was in the university, my duty was to donate blood every year. When I was in high school, one of my duties was to donate blood. However, you need transport facilities. You need logistics and packets to put blood. There are many Kenyans who are willing to donate blood. However, the logistics of blood donations are missing because there is no enough funding. As Parliament, we should ... view
• 23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Like I said earlier, my last point is that we need to develop these centres. We should equip them with logistics. I have a vision in this country that we must have a properly equipped blood transfusion centre in every county which is managed by the Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service, so that we can save lives. Therefore, I support this Bill. I wish we had considered this Bill before the budget because we could have appropriated funds for blood services, so that we can save Kenyans from death that come because of lack of blood. view
• 23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: I thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to speak. view
• 23 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support the Report on the second Supplementary Estimates. Supplementary budgets are always not the best avenues to manage an economy. It shows some weakness within the National Treasury and the Executive. If you have two Supplementary budgets in a financial year, then it actually tells you that we have even a bigger problem. Therefore, as a budget-making House, we need to put our foot down and discourage that practice. Although it is provided in Article 232 of the Constitution, I think the framers of the Constitution did not give us that Article to ... view