Prof. Anyang' Nyong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member is right. If you look at the number of accidents on the roads, building such emergency response centres is long overdue. Again, as I said yesterday, the Ministry is usually constrained by budgetary allocations in the House. We have put, in our budget for the next financial year, the building of emergency response centres along the major highways, particularly on the Naivasha-Nakuru Highway, because of the figures that we have regarding the accidents that have occurred there. Most of them have been extremely fatal. To transfer people from Naivasha to Nairobi, you run the ... view
• 26 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the hospital staff establishment at the moment is as follows: One medical doctor which is not enough for a size of that hospital because two have already resigned leaving one. So, the hon. Member is right. We need at least three medical doctors in Naivasha. We have six clinical officers, eight nurses, four laboratory staff, two record officers, two radiographers and two persons in the pharmacy department. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I realise that there is a shortage of doctors not just in Naivasha Hospital but in many other places. We have hospitals like Moyale District Hospital and ... view
• 26 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government is not available. So, we are requesting that the Question be deferred to next week. He is attending an official function. 3618 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES November 26, 2008 view
• 25 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
• 25 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
• 25 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
• 25 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
• 25 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
• 25 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
• 25 Nov 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member is right. The hospital has already indicated to us that it can allocate Kshs500,000 from its cost-sharing fund in the current financial year to supplement what the Lions Club International will do. Lions Club International have said that they are willing to complete the project. We want to take their word. However, in the event that Lions Club International disappoints us, we will factor in the Budget the full cost of the ICU, so that Meru District Hospital can have an ICU. Mr. Speaker, Sir, yesterday, I was in Meru visiting the Meru Central ... view