Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 581 to 590 of 1925.

• 12 Mar 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to comment on the Statement by the Chairperson of the Committee of Health. Let me put it on record that I am one of the pioneers of the dialysis centres in this country. We set up the first dialysis machines at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). That time, it became extremely difficulty to treat patients who had developed chronical renal failure. Therefore, at their end stage of renal failure, they could not survive. We were also the first group with the late Prof. Nelson Awuor to set up the first kidney transplant of ... view
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• 12 Mar 2020 in Senate: programmes like Mwea Tabere Irrigation Scheme and Kano Plains Irrigation Scheme. Largely, these are preventable conditions. This means that if we take precautions, we can prevent the end stage renal failure. Thirdly, Malaria is a treatable condition. One of the conditions associated with kidney failure is Malaria. If we effectively eradicate Malaria, be able to take care of Malaria at the early stage, we can reduce the intensity and the progression of renal disease. If we do so and we spend 15 per cent of our national budget on health as indicated in the Abuja Declaration--- I was part of ... view
• 12 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is largely a preventable situation. We can prevent it. We need to spend on preventive and promotive healthcare. The markers are there. We can use those markers. That is why the World Health Organization (WHO), in their own estimates, think more than 70 per cent of these conditions can be reduced to the level where you can prevent them. On the nutritional conditions and the life styles, these days, if you go to any shop or restaurant, eat the way you feel like without knowing that you are loading your view
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• 12 Mar 2020 in Senate: kidneys with so much nitrogenous waste, they become inefficient. Kidneys are like any other machine that will become inefficient. We should be discreet in our diet. We should not get too much protein into our bodies and when we produce urea, it becomes too difficult for the kidneys to filtrate it. If it is disease, then you are having a bigger problem. view
• 12 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we need to do three stages: prevention and promotion of what we think can cause renal diseases. When the renal diseases happen, then we can invoke the diagnostic processes which are now available in any standard Level 3 or Level 4 hospitals. We have enough trained technologists who can assist the doctors and other people to achieve that objective. Finally, should somebody get into a renal failure, this county is sophisticated enough to be able to do preventive dialysis awaiting transplant. You do not have to go to India or anywhere for a transplant. In this country, ... view
• 12 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, these arsenals are available to our Kenyans. We think we have properly trained our doctors to handle these patients. We can reduce immense costs associated with this so-called sophisticated treatment that we collect so much money to go outside the country for treatment. view
• 12 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, 92 per cent of the national budget is retained at the Ministry of Health. I do not know what it is doing there. We should empower county governments and the county health sector at the county level to undertake some of these functions so that they are able to attain--- I know they are keeping it there as a way of giving back as a conditional grant for you to develop these services. However, I think our counties are now sophisticated enough. Some of them have medical schools in their own locations. view
• 12 Mar 2020 in Senate: Let us devolve these funds to the county level and county health services so that county health services can get services that are commensurate with expertise, which is available among Kenyans. view