Prof. Anyang' Nyong'o

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1091 to 1100 of 2249.

• 24 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is for that very purpose that the HBC is meeting on 29th May next week to consider further Business in the House. view
• 24 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I take seriously the proposals by hon. Members as stated by the three hon. Members and, indeed, I will forward these proposals to the Leader of Government Business in the HBC on Tuesday so that he can put paid to any worries about the Government not taking its work seriously and so that the said Motions and Bills that need to be discussed urgently are indeed disposed of on Tuesday next week in the HBC and the Leader of Government Business can report to the House accordingly. view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: (a) The ratio of doctors to population in Kenya is 15:100,000 persons. view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: (b) My Ministry has a total of 275 facilities that are categorized as Level 4 and 5. Level 4 facilities are the district hospitals, and Githunguri is now within that category. I wish to inform the hon. Member for Githunguri that even at the time of replying to this Question, the facility in question is a health centre and has never had a doctor posted there. view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: (c) During the unrests we had with health workers late last year and early this year, the Right hon. Prime Minister constituted a task force on the 3rd of April, 2012, to look into the various issues affecting health workers. The most pertinent issue was for the task force to come up with recommendations on how we can retain our health workers to curb this exodus. The report of the task force is expected by 30th May, 2012. This is when I will, thereafter, authoritatively comment on the measures to be undertaken. view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree with the hon. Member. Indeed, one of the reasons why we do not have a doctor there at the moment is because of the shortage of doctors. But we are planning to hire about 120 doctors soon. Since Githunguri has a population of 150,000, they do deserve a doctor. But the most important thing is to ensure that if they have a doctor at Githunguri Hospital, that there are facilities that he can use. If he is a physician or a surgeon, we make sure there are facilities there, so that people who go ... view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, could I undertake to the hon. Member that I will send the Director of Medical Services (DMS) and his team to make sure that they inspect Githunguri Hospital or Githunguri Health Centre to ensure that the facilities requisite for its upgrading are there? Thereafter, we shall then gazette that health centre as a sub-district hospital. That is just a process required to ascertain the facilities which are there, so that when we gazette it, we do not make the mistake of putting it at a level where the facilities do not correspond. So, I will undertake ... view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, I beg to apologize for having arrived late to answer this Question. I hope that the hon. Member and the hon. Deputy Speaker will forgive me. I beg to answer. (a) I am very much aware that the hospital owes its suppliers millions of shillings dating back to approximately five years ago. In fact, as at 20th April, 2012, the total amount owed to various suppliers stood at Kshs7,934,904 only. (b) I am quite aware that a demand notice by the merchants dated 20th April, 2012, giving a 21-day ultimatum was received in the Ministry on 3rd ... view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we would really like to avoid such an eventuality and that is one of the reasons why we are asking the hospital managers at least to have an arrangement with the service providers whereby they can be paid some money quarterly so that we avoid the possibility of going to court. I know this is difficult but that is the only option left to us given that the first budgetary allocation to the Ministry was slashed drastically to the district hospitals. view