Prof. Anyang' Nyong'o

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1081 to 1090 of 2249.

• 24 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the controversy surrounding NHIF at the moment does not stop it from carrying out is normal duties. That controversy can be sorted out in its own terms while NHIF continues its normal duties. I have said that we have gone a long way to work on a universal health coverage scheme which will sort out these problems. Unless somebody has some invention which is better than the universal health coverage then we shall stick with what we know. Secondly, when it comes to having leverage over commercial insurance companies, that requires a cross-Government approach, including the Ministry ... view
• 24 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am not shy of answering on behalf of the Government. At the moment, the surest way of dealing with this problem is through universal healthcare coverage. If somebody has a better invention than mine, I am prepared to listen. view
• 24 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member knows that one of the reasons as to why the equipment could not be delivered was that we were moving from analogue to digital systems and, therefore, we had to order for them a most appropriate X-Ray machine that will serve them in the future rather than give them an analogue X-Ray machine, which will shortly be obsolete. Secondly, the hon. Member knows that in order for the X-Ray machine to work properly, given the climate in Lamu, there is need for a specially prepared room for such an X-Ray machine. Therefore, the situation ... view
• 24 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have stated very clearly that under what we are proposing as universal healthcare coverage, no disease will be excluded. It is important to understand that in order for the NHIF to cover all the diseases, some of which are extremely expensive to deal with, we need to improve on contributions to the NIHF, so that the NHIF can have the ability to cover those diseases. view
• 24 May 2012 in National Assembly: Secondly, under the special civil servants and disciplined forces cover, the coverage is universal. What we mean is that the normal NHIF contributors’ scheme needs to be up-scaled, so that we can cover everything. view
• 24 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the practice today is that any NHIF contributor with any exceptional disease will not be discriminated against. view
• 24 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if the hon. Member listened to me very carefully, he must have heard me say that we have no regulatory powers over private insurance companies. If anything, the Ministry that covers financial institutions is the Ministry of Finance. Ours is to go by our mandate. When it comes to insurance matters, we have only the NHIF as a Government body over which we have control. In that regard, I have said – and I will say again – that our aim is to ensure that the NHIF contributions are enhanced, so that those who go to private ... view
• 24 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am very grateful for the hon. Member’s question. We have just passed, in the Cabinet, the Social Protection Cabinet Memorandum, which, among other things, covers protection of mothers, especially in the area of maternal care. The moment we have what is called “transfer funds” – some funds to be given to the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Development to support selected poor mothers – the Social Protection Policy will be much wider in coverage, to make sure that some of the issues that particularly affect the poor and vulnerable are dealt with, so that we ... view
• 24 May 2012 in National Assembly: Order No.7! view
• 24 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, pursuant to provisions of Standing Order No.36 (4), I would like to issue the following Statement. I want to take this opportunity to make the following Statement with regard to the Business for next week. Next week, we expect the House to debate on the following two Bills currently at their Second Reading Stage: The Judicature (Amendment) Bill, Bill No.60 of 2011 and The Pyrethrum Bill, Bill No.57 of 2011. We also expect the Committee of the Whole House on The Publication of the Electoral Opinion Polls Bill, Bill No.59 of 2011 whose deliberation could not take ... view