Prof. Anyang' Nyong'o

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• 26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to answer. view
• 26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: (a) I am aware that some patients with kidney problems who seek treatment at the Kenyatta National Hospital die either from the disease itself or from complications of renal failure. Since there are only 13 functional dialysis machines at the hospital serving the entire Republic at a cost of Kshs36,000 per patient per month, it is possible that some patients’ death may arise from delayed appointments and financial constraints. view
• 26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: (b) Presently, three provincial general hospitals have been equipped with renal dialysis machines as follows:- view
• 26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: (i) Nakuru Provincial General Hospital with four machines; view
• 26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: (ii) Coast Provincial General Hospital with four machines; and, view
• 26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: (iii) New Nyanza Provincial General Hospital with two machines. (c) The Ministry’s plan is to progressively equip all provincial hospitals with dialysis machines by the year 2012. Indeed, when we started in 2008, there were only five dialysis machines at KNH but we have increased the number both at KNH and at those three provincial Government hospitals that I have mentioned. So, three of these hospitals have already received some machines under this arrangement. The remaining provincial hospitals will similarly be equipped with dialysis machines within this planning period. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, while equipping hospitals with dialysis machines, ... view
• 26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am ready to install the machines as soon as possible, provided the funds are available. One of the problems we have in the Ministry of Medical Services is that even in this budget as I will present it today, our resources have been cut substantially by the Treasury. Of course, we also rely on the NHIF to help us buy the machines and wherever the Fund can manage, they do in fact help us. Of the eight dialysis machines installed at Coast and Nakuru provincial general hospitals, assistance was received from the NHIF. The ... view
• 26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am grateful to Dr. Eseli for that question and the ideas he has proposed to us. Indeed, I agree with Dr. Eseli that we should use as much resources available to us as possible, especially through the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to help us in establishing appropriate and effective diagnostic services in all our hospitals and also equipment that can lead to the management of such diseases as renal failure. In the new proposal that we have made and which I presented to the House yesterday, we are coming up with a programme ... view
• 26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, indeed, we have a policy for private/public partnership. We now have a whole department or a section in the Ministry dealing with private/public partnership. Indeed, we have started programmes of private/public partnerships in putting up of our facilities and the financing of our facilities. The next thing we are going to do which is very important is going towards having equipment that can be used in private/public partnership. For example, it does not really make sense to me that we need to buy MRI machines in all our hospitals. If we can make arrangements with ... view
• 26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in dialysis, there are two important consumables that are used; distilled water and filament, as my friend Dr. Eseli would know. There are two ways of using that filament that purifies the blood; one, is to use and dispose of it, which makes it very expensive and the other is to make sure the patient uses the filament and it is stored at the facility. Every time the patient comes, it is cleaned and uses it again as is done in India and the United States of America (USA). I think that is the direction ... view