Prof. Anyang' Nyong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: On a point of order Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I was standing on a point of order. I want to underscore a statement you made that we need to respect each other in this House. I was away from this country from 10th January, 2009 up to 5th February, 2009. While I was a way a letter was circulated in this House and internationally purporting to have been written by me on 13th January, 2009 in Nairobi, while I was in Havana, Cuba. It was purported to be a memorandum from me to the Prime Minister to the effect that ... view
• 16 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: I rise to contribute to this very important point of order. I would like to agree with hon. Members that this House is the supreme law-making body in the Republic of Kenya. As Wole Soyinka once said, "A tiger does not need to shout about its tigritude; it pounces". I do believe that we do not need to shout about our tigritude, but we should pounce on the problem. The problem before us is not really that we want to gag the Press, nor is it that the Press wants to muzzle the House. The problem is a misunderstanding over ... view
• 16 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, could I be given my chance? My appeal to the House is as follows: If we know that there has been a misunderstanding, let us isolate it from the other issues that are attendant to the Kenyan politics. If a misunderstanding is about certain Clauses in the Bill that was passed, I would rather we isolate that issue and deal with it, rather than either hang the Press or condemn ourselves. What is emerging is that we may be driving ourselves towards hubris when it is not necessary for us to do so. Indeed, as Dr. Eseli ... view
• 16 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Bill. I would like to point out one or two things for a very short period of time in support of the Bill. One of the things I would like to point out regards the fears of certain members of staff in the ECK. They expressed fears that if this Bill is passed, then they would lose their jobs. I would like to point it out to the Fourth Estate to spell it out very clearly because we do not want any misunderstanding with ordinary Kenyans serving in the ECK as ... view
• 26 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that the cervical cancer radiotherapy machine at the Kenyatta National Hospital became non-functional in 2007. (b) As a short-term measure, Kenyatta National Hospital has plans to procure a Cobalt 60 Radiotherapy Machine at a cost of Kshs70 million. In addition, the hospital, through collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has already acquired a Gamma Camera worth Kshs24 million used for detecting cancerous diseases using nuclear techniques. Under the same collaboration, the hospital has also acquired a new Simulator Machine worth Kshs36 million used for planning of administration ... view
• 26 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member is perfectly right. It is a shame that we should be sending our cancer patients to Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, for treatment. The fact of the matter is that this machine broke down; it is non-functional. I have been November 25, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3517 to both the New Nyanza General Hospital, in Kisumu, and the Kenyatta National Hospital. We have to take urgent measures, not only to restore the machine at Kenyatta National Hospital, but to ensure that we have a competent and adequate cancer programme in our hospitals. We are even ... view
• 26 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we should have early detection of cancer cases because the treatment gets expensive and complicated with time. We should have advanced machines to deal with cancer cases in our referral hospitals. Diagnosis can take place in low level facilities. That is one reason we are upgrading the provincial hospitals to referral facilities. We are upgrading equipment in health centres and sub-district hospitals throughout the country. In the near future, we shall have ultrasound machines in health centres, so that diagnostic services can be received at these facilities. We want to be responding to cancer cases much earlier ... view
• 26 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have already said that Kenyatta National Hospital and New Nyanza General Hospital are at an advanced stages of making these two equipment operational. We are also working very closely with the International Atomic Energy Agency to make sure that what we put in place will be serviceable on a long-term basis. We are concerned that our patients do suffer by going so far to Uganda for cancer treatment. We also need a cancer research centre in this country so that we can deal with cancer in a much more broader fashion. It is also true that ... view
• 26 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank the hon. Member for drawing our attention to that issue. That is one of the reasons why we are proposing to the Cabinet to establish a 3518 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES November 25,2008 medical centre in this country so that we can have training for such specialised services. We do not only lack oncologists but we also lack very many specialised services in this country including the geriatric medicine. view
• 26 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply as follows:- I am aware that Meru General Hospital does not have an ICU. This is very regrettable because the hospital has a bed capacity of 328, an occupancy rate of 160 per cent and ten wards. Therefore, for it not to have an ICU is a tragedy. Nonetheless, the fact of the matter is as follows: The Lions Club International, a development partner working with my Ministry, took up construction of the ICU in 2006 at an estimated cost of Kshs5.5 million. Construction was done up to the slab level at a ... view