Prof. Anyang' Nyong'o

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1731 to 1740 of 2249.

• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was coming to the history of my concern for this issue. Now that I have arrived there, at least, I have owned up to the responsibility of the Government by compiling all the debts. Nobody had done this before. I have acknowledged that the debts are there and they must be paid. That is a step forward and the hon. Member should, at least, give credit to me. view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, having done that, the next step is to pay the debt. Unfortunately, in the Ministry of Medical Services, we do not have a mint for money. It must come from the Treasury. In order for the money to “travel” from the Treasury--- view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member is out of order. That notwithstanding, going back to Lodwar, I think Mr. Ethuro is right. We had a problem with water bills. Water is so crucial that we allocated money and cleared the water bills and came up with a system so that hospitals do not get water shortages. The Ministry of Medical Services has a tremendous constraint in terms of resources. We need to have 15 per cent of the Budget allocated to health. At the moment, only 7 per cent of the Budget goes to health, which means we are ... view
• 7 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to answer. (a) It is not the policy of the KNH to detain bodies of patients whose relatives are too poor to raise the outstanding hospital bills. (b) The late Stephen Thuo was admitted at the critical care unit of the hospital on 2nd March 2009, and passed away on 19th April 2009 having incurred a bill of Kshs583, 125 as at May 2009. The mortuary bill had accumulated to Kshs4, 500 bringing the total amount payable by relatives of the deceased to Kshs587, 625. The relatives are free to collect the body for burial ... view
• 7 May 2009 in National Assembly: Although the Public Health Act, Cap. 242 of the Laws of Kenya, obligates mortuaries to dispose of unclaimed bodies after ten days, Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) does not dispose of bodies whose relatives have expressed a willingness to bury such bodies. The family of the late Stephen Thuo is advised to view
• 7 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, KNH is actually in a dilemma. On one hand it is a public institution that must accept Kenyans when they go for healthcare and on the other hand, it is an institution that must also meet the cost of delivering healthcare. That means that when people go there, they must do two things; they must have cash in hand to pay for the healthcare or let the insurance pay for it. Quite often, people like Mr. Stephen Thuo may not have insurance. In which case, they are compelled to pay their medical bills by cash. This is ... view
• 7 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, just to make a clarification; the mothers that the hon. Member is referring to were not bodies. They were human beings who were alive. So, that is a different case. What we are talking about is somebody who has already been deceased for some time. That is a different category of analysis than human beings who are alive. Nonetheless, I said that it is important that we have a policy that will help the poor receive healthcare. That involves health fund financing through view
• 7 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I really empathize with the hon. Member and I also empathize with the hospital administration because we are caught between the rock and a hard place, whereby the hospital must meet its cost by recovering the expenses and at the same time the poor family must also get help by receiving the body. This is a case where somebody will have to come and guarantee the credit for the family and then arrangements be made to pay the bill over time so that the body can be released to the relatives. That is the only sane arrangement ... view
• 7 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member must be speaking of another Ministry of Medical Services which I do not head. view
• 7 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. Emuhaya District is among the more than 100 new districts created since 2007. All these new districts require district hospitals bearing in mind that a model district hospital costs above Kshs1 billion in buildings and equipment. It is not possible to build fully-fledged district hospitals in all new districts. Granted that the Ministry’s infrastructure development and maintenance budget is about Kshs300 million annually, the Ministry’s proposal is to progressively upgrade key facilities in limited health centres and dispensaries among those proposed to become district hospitals with due regard to demographic consideration and geographical ... view