Prof. Anyang' Nyong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other possibility which is a long term thing is for the hospitals to automate their services and use cash registers for revenue allocation. Where this has been done, collection of cost sharing has gone up tremendously – exponentially in fact. So, it would be useful, and we have advised all these hospitals to invest in automation in order to increase the collection of cost sharing so that the servicing of such debts can be possible. view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the NHIF scheme has not been suspended. What was done was to stop the accounts of those two service providers but that is a completely different scheme. That is a scheme based on a contract between the Ministry of Public Service and the NHIF. The normal NHIF disbursement to contributors continues. It is not in any way affected by or related to the Civil Service Medical Scheme which is a special scheme negotiated between the NHIF and the Ministry of Public Service. So, the hon. Member should not have any fears and, indeed, funds from that ... view
• 15 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with regard to the specific issue that hon. C. Kilonzo has raised; whether the members will continue to be covered, I want to assure the House that the action that was taken was just to block the accounts for the two service providers, but services continue. The caretaker Board will take appropriate measures to make sure that the services continue. That is a very temporary measure. We should distinguish between this scheme for the Ministry of State for Public Service and the normal NHIF scheme, which goes on regardless of what happens to the Public Service ... view
• 15 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me clarify. The point that the Members are raising is very important; that once there is a contractual obligation between the NHIF and the Ministry of State for Public Service to provide these services, they must be provided. The point I am making is that because of the problem that has faced these two service providers, what has been affected is not the service provision, but the account. Now, the caretaker Board must make arrangements for services to continue notwithstanding the problem. That is my understanding. We will be taken to task if services stopped ... view
• 15 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me go on record for the purpose of this House that those services will not stop. view
• 10 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am not aware that Kenya does not have trained speech therapists. As a country we have three who are engaged in training those who require this service. (b) We have four non-Kenyan speech therapists in addition to the three Kenyan speech therapists. The three Kenyan speech therapists are serving at the following institutions: 1. Kenya Institute of Special Education (KISE), Ms. Grace Macharia; 2. Gertrudes Garden Children Hospital, Ms. Lorna Muthoni; 3. A private practitioner operating a private school with special needs, of which speech therapy is one; this is Ms. ... view
• 10 May 2012 in National Assembly: (c) As of now, we are challenged by speech therapists, but we have plans of developing of a curriculum involving all stakeholders. view
• 10 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member is quite right. The Kenya Government does not have any tertiary institution that trains speech therapists. That is why I said that we have a major challenge in speech therapy. It is regrettable. Out of the seven speech therapists in this country, four are from abroad and only three are from here. We have to rely on neighbouring countries like Uganda or South Africa to offer specialized training for our people. The estimated cost of training one speech therapist in both countries is about Kshs4 million. So, without proper outlay of resources to the ... view
• 10 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member is very right that the cost of consulting speech therapists is very expensive in this country because it is mainly in the private sector. I have said before and I will repeat here, that the cost of healthcare in this country is pretty high. Therefore, when ordinary Kenyans suffer from costly diseases which either require treatment or palliative care, we are really in the doldrums. In our current Budget and in our submission to the Government regarding long terms improvement in healthcare, I have always said in this House that we need about Kshs85 ... view
• 10 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the only remedial action that we have taken and we shall continue to take is to depend on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and volunteers like the Voluntary Services Organization (VSO) which offer this service. The next thing that we can do is to work together with universities, whether public or private, to mount this course. That is why I have said that Kenya needs, not the eight medical schools that we have today, but 35 medical schools in the public and private sectors to respond to the tremendous shortage of medical professionals in this country; from ordinary physicians ... view