Dr. Reginalda Nakhumicha Wanyonyi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Apr 2024 in Senate: the parties are expected to present the progress to the conciliation committee and World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA). The court is also expected to determine whether the doctors’ strike is protected or not. I would like to inform Members of this House that the Ministry is doing its level best to ensure that the human resources for health matters are handled permanently. We seek your support. One of the sticky issues is the internship, which arises because we now have many interns. Previously, we only had one university that used to train doctors; the University of Nairobi (UoN). At ... view
• 17 Apr 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, and hon. Members. The question by Sen. Kavindu Muthama regarding Bishop Kioko is what I have responded to previously. That is the faith-based facility. Concerning the resources that we are receiving, as I said, we have received a letter from the National Treasury confirming that we are going to receive the monies. We are waiting to receive the money and we expect that it will hit our account this week. The NHIF is already working to ensure that once we receive the money this week, from next week, payments should start going out to ... view
• 17 Apr 2024 in Senate: Regarding the strike and a definite date as to when the doctors will go back to work, we are now in the process of negotiation. I am not able to confirm with certainty that by tomorrow they will be back to work. Of course, I would like that we conclude the negotiation in the shortest time possible. I would like, since the matter has been mentioned today by the Employment and Labour Relations Court, if the doctors can go back to work today, that would be the ideal situation for us as a country. However, we are going to put ... view
• 17 Apr 2024 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 17 Apr 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I will begin with the question of Sen. (Prof.) Kamar that the KMPDU has alluded to the Government being on strike. They have explained that this is because the CBA was not implemented from 2017 to date. The CBA that was signed had several aspects. In my earlier submission, we have put those matters into the different areas that need to take responsibility. We have matters for the national Government, those that are cross-cutting and for county governments. I want to confirm that of the six issues that pertain to the national Government, we ... view
• 17 Apr 2024 in Senate: I want to clarify that on the issues raised by KMPDU, risk allowance does not arise. The people who raised the issue of risk allowance are the clinical officers. They are saying they want the risk allowance to be enhanced from Kshs3, 000 to Kshs15, 000 per month. That is a 500 per cent increase in the risk allowance. That is an issue of budget. Once we get SRC guidelines, if that is possible, then we put it in the budget for consideration. Once the National Assembly approves our budget and the exchequer is released, we shall meet that because ... view
• 17 Apr 2024 in Senate: I want to confirm that according to the SHIF, reproductive health is one of the benefits package. In fact, it is an expanded package from what was there under LindaMama . Let us not stick on Linda Mama . Let us be concerned about what is it that they were getting then and what they will get in the new one. I confirm that the benefits are expanded. On the question raised by Sen. Hamida Kibwana regarding whether we know the situation, indeed, we know the situation. On a daily basis, we track how the situation looks like. We have ... view
• 17 Apr 2024 in Senate: Ministry being able to implement what will have been agreed on. I have also said that we expect a ruling from the court. The mention is happening today. The judge, in his wisdom, ordered the doctors to suspend the strike. I want to plead with the doctors. If they respect court orders and suspend the strike, they will create a good environment of being listened to. That will enable the Government to do something, so that we meet somewhere with them. Regarding internship centres, I want to confirm that, as a Ministry, we have criteria that is used to determine ... view
• 17 Apr 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir and Members. On the question raised by Sen. Mbugua on the creation of a Health Service Commission (HSC), I take note that this House is the defender of devolution. It is the House that is supposed to ringfence and take care of devolved functions. Having a HSC would be ideal, but it would be outside the mandate of the Ministry of Health. It would be a constitutional question. Since the conversation is ongoing and if everyone believes that is the direction to be taken, then as a Ministry we are happy that the process ... view
• 17 Apr 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. On the question by Sen. Gataya Mo Fire, I confirm that I have personally been to Marimanti Level 4 Hospital. We visited the hospital to look at its needs. We had received a request from the Governor regarding the elevation of that The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view