Prof. Anyang' Nyong'o

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1441 to 1450 of 2249.

• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, again, I will not agree with the hon. Member more. I agree with him completely that we need to have a proper maintenance and management programme for our machines. Indeed, I have come across many machines in hospitals that are not properly maintained. The basic problem is that our Biomedical Engineering Department at the Kenya Medical Training College has not been training enough biomedical engineering personnel. We have not also established a well functioning biomedical engineering department in the Ministry to take care of the whole issue of biomedical engineering in the Ministry. We are addressing the ... view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the good news is that apart from Kenyatta National Hospital, we have a provincial general hospital where we are establishing a cancer centre with the help of development partners, that is, the New Nyanza General Hospital. At the moment, the person being trained at Kenyatta National Hospital will take four years to train. At the same time, to effectively utilize the machine, he also requires the following technical personnel: One oncologist, one medical physicist, view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will let the Minister for Agriculture know that this Question was on the Order Paper. The Question will be answered on Tuesday next week. view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: (a) I am aware that there is no hospital in Marsabit North District view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: (b) The Ministry’s target is to have at least, a sub-district hospital in every constituency. It costs about Kshs700 million to put up a standard hospital. During the Budget preparation process for 2009/2010 financial year, the Ministry requested Treasury for funds to construct 42 new hospitals, one of which was proposed for Marsabit North District, at Kalacha. Unfortunately, Treasury was unable to allocate the required funds. The Ministry will continue to seek funding from Treasury and development partners to support construction of a hospital for Marsabit North. view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member is right that North Horr Constituency is one of the biggest constituencies in this nation. It could be a view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: province by itself and the Ministry is cognizant of that fact. I do empathize with the hon. Member for the underdevelopment of the area due to inadequate infrastructure and facilities that the Government should provide. We, indeed, in the Ministry are more than ready to support North Horr in ensuring that hospitals are established in that particular area. Let me assure the hon. Member that in conjunction with the Ministry of Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands, under my friend, hon. Elmi, we are working together to secure funds from a development partner. Plans are at an advanced ... view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that question is very important. We have been working on a national ambulance service. In the past, the problem that the Ministry has had was to have ambulances situated in this or that health centre or district. That system is very inefficient. In fact, yesterday, I launched a programme with the Kenya Red Cross which is called the Red Cross Emergency Medical Service. We are going to have a modern ambulance system, where people will be able to call to a particular number to get an ambulance. This ambulance will be stationed strategically at certain places ... view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is another monumental problem we have in our Ministry. We have shortage of doctors, although Kenya historically has trained a lot of medical personnel. I wish I could convince my friend, Prof. Ongeri here who is a medical personnel to double between being a Minister and a doctor at the same time. But, again, he will not have time. We are currently recruiting doctors and posting them at this point in time. I am in constant discussion with the Director of Medical Services who does this job. It is very difficult to share the few ... view