Prof. Anyang' Nyong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, however, the House is right. Treatment is a problem in this country, because in the public health system, in public hospitals, it is only the KNH that really has got what I may call facilities for cancer treatment. We also have some facilities at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and some modicum of facilities in missionary hospitals like Tenwek and Gendia Mission Hospital. In Tenwek, they treat throat cancer very effectively and Gendia Mission Hospital also treats prostate cancer. But all these hospitals, which I have visited, need a lot of support from us as ... view
• 2 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Therefore, what we are proposing in the Ministry--- I have discussed this thing with the Departmental Committee on Health. I think after the recent study by Deloitte and the officer in charge of the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF), we have completed a National Social Health Insurance Cabinet memorandum, which is being discussed by Treasury, because the Treasury must sign it. I hope that Treasury is going to do this very quickly so that the Cabinet can pass the Social Health Insurance Fund Cabinet Memorandum, and then we will bring a Bill to the House to amend the NHIF Act ... view
• 2 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Now, that process, I am happy to say, is very advanced. It was a result of the recent work done by the NHIF and Delloitte. It tells us what kind of changes we need in the NHIF, so that we can have a social health insurance fund; it will then be able to fund proper health care of our people. With a proper social health insurance fund, we shall get the resources which we can use even to buy equipment. At the moment, what the NHIF can do is only buy a few ambulances here and there but that is ... view
• 2 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, but that does not alter the fact that we need the Government to put substantial funds in health delivery. We have prepared a strategic plan, which we will bring to the House also as a Bill, on what we need in the next five years to fund the health sector. The estimate we have, if we have really to bring our health sector to proper standards of care delivery, as required by the Constitution and demanded by the counties--- Within the next five years we must invest Kshs85 billion in the health sector. That is ... view
• 2 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with the new Constitution, as the House has observed and, indeed, as hon. Members have demanded, every county will need a proper referral facility. That means that we need proper referral facilities in 47 counties. At the moment, we have about 285 district hospitals nationally. Of those 285, at least, 47 must be developed as referral facilities in those counties. Today, I can only mention about a dozen or so district hospitals that can serve as referral facilities. There is Kisii Level 5, Kericho, Meru, Kitale, Bungoma, Thika, Kiambu and about five others. Those are ... view
• 2 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you go to a country like Angola, a district hospital has about 47 dialysis machines, CT scans and so on. That is what we need for referral facilities. Therefore, I would really appreciate the initiative of the Committee on Health to join us in this effort of making sure that we come out with very sound plans which should be embraced by the Treasury, so that we can equip and develop proper human resources. view
• 2 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is very unfortunate that in this financial year, the Ministry of Medical Services does not have resources for training. It means that our young doctors who are serving in our hospitals cannot go for their Masters. One of the reasons why young doctors join the public sector is because there has always been that hope and assurance that they will go for postgraduate studies. If they are not financed for postgraduate studies, there is a tendency for them to resign, join the private sector and see how they can finance themselves to go for ... view
• 2 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, further, the only way we are going to produce professionals locally is if we have enough medical schools in the country. Today, we have five medical schools in the public sector and three medical schools in the private sector. Those are only eight. This country needs, at least, 35 medical schools to produce enough professionals to serve our nation. So, we are still very far from having adequate institutions nationally to produce the kind of specialists we need in the medical sector to serve our people. That is because in the medical sector, almost every ... view
• 2 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other issue is that we have, for a long time, assumed that when you have cancer, you must have chemotherapy and that, that is the only treatment. There are now so many types of cancers that chemotherapy, though a very important and basic approach to cancer treatment--- When you have pediatric leukemia, for example, that shows that such children need bone marrow transplant as anybody who has leukemia. Now, you know Stendhal Researchers are very advanced in the United States of America, but that is not very well known here. So, these are things ... view
• 2 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a very important Motion and I am waiting for the Cancer Bill to pass it. I hope that our Government will take this seriously, so that we can deal with cancer appropriately. view