Prof. Anyang' Nyong'o

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1511 to 1520 of 2249.

• 15 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) In the Turkana region, there are 90 health facilities located as follows:- In Turkana Central, there is one hospital called Lodwar District Hospital. There are two health centres by the names of AIC Kolokol and Lorugum. There are 29 dispensaries as listed in the list that I will hereby table before the House and the hon. Member. I am sure the hon. Member has already seen the list. view
• 15 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: In Turkana North, there are two hospitals. They are Lopiding and Lokitaung sub- district hospitals. There is one health centre called AIC Lokichoggio. There are 32 dispensaries as listed in the list that I have laid on the Table. view
• 15 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: In Turkana South, there are three health centres. They are PCEA Lokichar, AIC Lokori and AIC Nakwamoru. There are 20 dispensaries as listed in the list that I have just laid on the Table. There is no hospital in Turkana South District. view
• 15 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: (b) The policy of the Ministry is to have, at least, a sub-district hospital in every constituency. As per this guidance, the Ministry needs to put up a hospital in Turkana South. To address that need, the Ministry, during the budget preparation process for the year 2009/2010, proposed to the Treasury to allocate funds to construct 42 new hospitals, one of which was to be in Turkana South. Unfortunately, the Treasury was unable to allocate the required funds. view
• 15 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: However, the Ministry will continue to engage the Treasury and our development partners to support the construction of a hospital in Turkana South and other deserving constituencies. In addition, in the current 2009/2010 Financial Year, the Government has implemented a focus shift whereby funds for construction of health centres have been availed to constituencies. In that arrangement, every constituency will get Kshs20 million for the construction of one health centre. Similarly, funds have been made available for the recruitment of 20 nurses for deployment in each constituency. If those funds are well utilized in the three Turkana districts, capacity for ... view
• 15 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: As regards dispensaries, the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) and the community have constructed a total of 20 facilities in the three districts, for which I congratulate the hon. Member, my friend hon. David Ekwee Ethuro, Esq. The Ministry’s plan is to make all of them fully operational within the current 2009/2010 Financial Year. That will further address the realization of the MDGs in Turkana. view
• 15 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, what the hon. Member has said is very true. That commitment follows the World Health Organization (WHO) standards. We, as a Government, must adhere to it as much as possible. You will notice that I have physically been going around to see for myself the distances involved and whether the referral system that we are trying to devise can work. We have one major challenge - population concentration. In areas where the population is widely dispersed and is not concentrated in certain places, and where it might become both difficult and uneconomical to put up dispensaries which ... view
• 15 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I said that in this year’s Budget, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance has allocated Kshs20 million per constituency for the construction of health centres. That is in the Budget. The other thing I said is that we are hiring nurses and we shall be deploying 20 nurses per constituency. We hope that those 20 nurses will be rationally distributed within the constituency to provide services in the dispensaries, health centers and sub-district hospitals. I know for certain that even when we provide 20 nurses per constituency during this financial year, that will not be ... view
• 15 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 15 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the interviews are currently going on and our hope is that we hire these nurses as soon as the interviews are over. Regarding KEMSA, this is a problem that we all have as hon. Members, including myself; that although we may have constructed these dispensaries, not all of them have been properly gazetted. As soon as they are gazetted, then KEMSA can distribute drugs to them because there are certain cases where the health officials in the grassroots may not have inspected all these dispensaries. This is the reality. I am just being very transparent so that ... view