Prof. Anyang' Nyong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA) has also tremendously improved its supply chain management and delivery systems with the putting in place of an enterprise resource management system and, indeed, by December, we are going to be launching a commercial wing of KEMSA. With those kinds of improvements and with further investment in the health sector, we will need more money than is currently provided in the Budget. I will soon come to the specific shortfalls, sector by sector, that we should draw the attention of this House to. We have already drawn the attention of the ... view
• 30 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: My Ministry recognizes that it is the responsibility of the Government to ensure that all people have access to health care, more so, the poor, if we are to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Further, the Constitution makes access to health care, as I have said, a right. Therefore, we have no excuse, whatsoever, but to provide proper financial resources for healthcare. High household out of pocket spending remains a major barrier to healthcare access in our country. It is estimated that in Kenya, households contribute over 30 per cent of total healthcare in expenditure. This is not sustainable; ... view
• 30 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, secondly, due to the fact that we have only Kshs4 billion for development expenditure--- view
• 30 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, given that we have only Kshs4 billion for this expenditure. since I have only two minutes let me say very quickly what our shortfalls; maybe during Question Time I will elaborate. view
• 30 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have a shortfall in our Ministry of Kshs23.3 billion; this is money that we need dearly. This money covers the claims from our staff, particularly from parastatals, for commuter allowance, which is very important, and which they have been demanding. It represents a shortfall for training, which doctors need so that they can go for postgraduate work and come and serve people better. It also represents a shortfall for the hiring of nurses, so that our people can be treated better. It also represents a shortfall of what we need for drugs and non-pharmaceuticals; we have ... view
• 30 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, these shortfalls are so huge that I request this House to look at this Vote very carefully, and help us in appealing to the Minster for Finance to look at the Ministry of Medical Services very carefully and not let out people die, because we cannot provide resources either for their treatment or for the prevention of diseases among our population. I hope that when the House looks at the Vote carefully, I will be able to answer more questions. Over the next five years, if, indeed, we want our services to be better, we need at ... view
• 30 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: I beg to move. view
• 30 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will give the Members a minute each because I have to have time to respond to the very weighty issues the other Members have raised. view
• 30 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: So, if they can make their comments and finish by 5.10 p.m., I will be grateful. view
• 30 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in line with my dear friend, Mr. Njuguna, the Member for Lari, I would like to thank my staff, the Permanent Secretary, Mary Ngare and the Director for Medical Services, Dr. Kimani for having worked very hard during the year to help deliver health services to our people. I would also like to thank all our partners who have partnered with us in providing, particularly development financing to rehabilitate our hospitals, to train our staff and for the acquisition of the enterprise resource programme at the KEMSA which was done very ably by the USAID. I ... view