All parliamentary appearances
Entries 1671 to 1680 of 2249.
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28 Jul 2009 in National Assembly:
VOTE R11 â RECURRENT EXPENDITURE
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28 Jul 2009 in National Assembly:
SUB-VOTE 110 â GENERAL ADMINISTRATION AND PLANNING
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28 Jul 2009 in National Assembly:
SUB-VOTE 111 â CURATIVE HEALTH
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28 Jul 2009 in National Assembly:
(Heads 294, 316, 317, 318, 320, 321 and 351 agreed to)
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28 Jul 2009 in National Assembly:
(Sub-Vote 111 agreed to)
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28 Jul 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the House doth agree with the Committee in the said Resolution.
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25 Jun 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Currently, there are no bodies detained at the KNH mortuary as a consequence of inability to pay hospital bills. Nonetheless, there is an accumulation of 501 bodies in both the private and general wings. Twenty one bodies are classified as unclaimed and will be disposed off in accordance with the Public Health Act in liaison with the Nairobi City Council. The Public Health Act, Cap 242, obligates mortuaries to dispose of unclaimed bodies after 10 days. However, KNH normally preserves the bodies for 21 days, after which they are passed on to ...
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25 Jun 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir remember that this Bill was brought to this House in 2005. The House passed it but it was not signed into law by the President then for good reasons because there were certain loopholes that needed to have been plugged. These loopholes include, among other things, the indices or how the poor can be covered using Exchequer resources. Secondly, it also means identifying who the poor are and at what source. This requires a lot of analysis. That is what we are doing at the moment. We want the indices for identifying the poor to be established ...
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25 Jun 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, all doctors are bound by the Hippocratic Oath; that is, they must look after human life and make sure that those who are sick receive medical attention. There is, however, somebody called âThe Controller and Auditor-Generalâ who, after you have finished a financial year, will come and look at your books and ask you why certain bills have not been covered and why you have spent more than your means. The Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), therefore, is caught in a bind. One, they cannot turn away any patient who comes to the hospital for medical attention. Secondly, ...
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25 Jun 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have absolutely no powers either on earth or in Heaven to detain any body anywhere in the Republic of Kenya. Nonetheless, I need to explain to the House why those bodies are lying at the hospital mortuary.
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