Prof. Anyang' Nyong'o

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1691 to 1700 of 2249.

• 25 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Regarding Mr. Nyamai’s point, he is right. But the rules of natural justice require that you only deal with somebody if you caught him or her in the act. What has happened in the past, there is no way I can deal with those issues retroactively. But now that we are putting measures to ensure that our suppliers are bonafide and do not overcharge or give us fake drugs. We shall make sure that the measures stipulated in the task force report of KEMSA including the bar-coding and the WHO qualification prevent us from dealing with dubious dealers. view
• 25 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was ready with that Ministerial Statement yesterday but time was cut short. Right now, I do not have it here. view
• 25 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I apologize because I do not have the Ministerial Statement with me. view
• 25 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will issue the Ministerial Statement at the next sitting of the House. view
• 25 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the request by the hon. Member was contained in the Statement that I was reading but I can summarize it. One, we shall not only take action to make sure that the fees are waived and that the patient is properly treated but we shall also proceed to take disciplinary action on the medical personnel who committed that travesty. It is a very serious matter. It is an issue of negligence and I have talked to the Director of Medical Services and we have taken it very seriously. I undertake to the hon. Member that I ... view
• 24 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Public Health Management Boards have not been constituted since 2008 because of legal challenges occasioned by the split of the former Ministry of Health. Legal Notice No.401 renamed the boards as Facility Management Committees and mandated the Minister for Health to gazette them. After the split of the Ministry, the Office of the Minister for Health ceased to view
• 24 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish I could but the specific time of issuing the gazette notice is not really in my hands. We can prepare the gazette notice but timing of its issue is controlled by other variables. view
• 24 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is a very good question. I also puzzled because they need these management boards to operate. I think they have been operating under the old committees, which is a transition period between what existed before and what should now exist under the new legal notice. This is posing a lot of problems. view
• 24 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, human beings operate by thinking. If you do not think then it would be very difficult to explain anything. So, the hon. Member must bear with me that I am a human being and therefore, I have to think. “I think therefore I am” said the philosopher Descartes. So, it is in order to think in order to state something. So, I will state once again that they are operating in a transition period between the old committees which were under the Ministry of Health and the new ones which are to be gazetted within the ... view
• 24 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thought the hon. Member was in the House when I was explaining what is happening, but if he wants to explain it in a different way, then he has the democratic right to do so. The reason why there has been a delay is due to legal view