Sabina Wanjiru Chege

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for the opportunity. I have a Statement on various issues related to the Covid-19 pandemic from the Departmental Committee on Health. The House is aware that on 28th February 2020, His Excellency the President, Uhuru Kenyatta, issued an Executive Order establishing the National Emergency Response Committee to coordinate the country’s preparedness response to Coronavirus. On 15th March 2020, travel restrictions were issued in some areas that are hard-hit by COVID-19. As at 28th April 2020, we had a total of 374 persons who had been confirmed to having contracted the COVID-19 disease. So far, 124 persons ... view
• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, as opposed to media reports on having received Kshs40 billion to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Health has only received Kshs300 million – which has been shared amongst the Government institutions as follows: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kshs10 million to facilitate Kenyan students in Wuhan China; Ministry of Defence, Kshs75 million for Defence team preparedness and readiness to response; National Youth Service, Kshs10 million to provide security at the isolation and quarantine facilities in addition to providing buses and personnel; Kenyatta National Hospital, Kshs150 million to provide additional bed capacity at Mbagathi Hospital Isolation Centre; State ... view
• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Additionally, the Government of Kenya has provided funds for recruitment of medical staff as follows: view
• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: For, Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital, there will be an addition of 568 staff members. For Mbagathi COVID-19 Centre, 288; for Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, 94; Human resource for some counties and the receipts are also attached, 1059 members of staff and human resource for national level – 60. The total amount that will be spent on this is Ksh936, 742,782 on salaries. Hon. Speaker and Members, regarding isolation centers, the Cabinet Secretary (CS) of Health has set up functional units in Kenyatta National Hospital, Mbagathi Hospital and Kenyatta University Hospital which has now been dedicated to be ... view
• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: with priority being given to procurement of emergency consumables to facilitate protection of health workers, sample collection, and test for COVID-19. Emergency procurement valued at Ksh849,258,681 were initiated through Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) with a focus on essential commodities and services, in addition to Government to Government engagement. There is an attachment entitled "Statement in the Distribution List to the County Governments", by KEMSA. The Government has also engaged the following local firms to produce facemasks and make them affordable to the common mwananchi whose list is also attached. The President issued a three-month moratorium for counties to source ... view
• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Quarantine facilities and hotels - 5,000; and, Port Health and Truck Drivers - 14,000 For five counties with confirmed local transmission targeting supermarket workers, Public Service Vehicles (PSV) workers, market vendors and people who come into contact and interact with high number of persons per day, 5,000 in Nairobi, 2,000 in Mombasa, 1,000 in Mandera, 1,000 Kilifi and 1,000 in Kwale... We have also been investigating geographical hotspots at 5,000, Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) and International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) health facilities at 2,000. Hon. Members, in terms of Human Resource (HR) capacity, the Ministry of Health is facing ... view
• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Further, the Ministry of Health is in serious challenge of an acute shortage of laboratory reagents, testing kits including PCR kits which is a worldwide problem and so the Ministry has started the process of procuring reagents for automated machines; that is, Roche, Abbott and GeneXperts to be able to do 432,000 tests. However, 130 kits to do 26,000 tests, automated reagents from USA Roche reagents arrived the day before yesterday. view
• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Finally, the treatment of COVID-19 and forced quarantine has been the cause for alarm to the Committee as well as members of the public. The Ministry has put in place a system which will help with psychosocial team to assess the ability to pay by the COVID-19 patients with a view to waive the bills on a case-by-case basis. However, funds are required to reimburse the facilities so that they can sustain themselves. I thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Chairman. I stand to support the Chair. It is good for Members of this House to be keen, especially on allocation of money. A lot of things that are coming out, Hon. Chairman, is that there is some money that was already given by donors but it was indicated like it is the money that has already been spent. So, it is important that the Hon. Members be keen and listen to the allocations. We are the ones who allocate money in this House. As we make progress, it is important that we note down what we ... view
• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Chairman. view