Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 931 to 940 of 1925.

• 6 Jun 2019 in Senate: I want to give the background of the diseases before I come to the prescription of what must happen. What happens particularly to children at the young age? When we look at the patho-physiology of the disease, you and I have the red blood cells in our bodies. These carry the red pigment called haemoglobin in the blood. It is the haemoglobin that has a carrying capacity for oxygen to all tissues of the body. When we talk of oxygen saturation percentages, we are talking about the ability and capacity of the haemoglobin to carry oxygen for oxygenation to all ... view
• 6 Jun 2019 in Senate: Secondly, navigating through the narrow arteries and veins becomes a major problem. The affected person, therefore, undergoes various crises particularly when he has a fever. A simple fever or infection will precipitate a crisis. A simple change of hydration or fluids in the body will make the blood thicker and, therefore, precipitate a crisis. These children have a difficult time. view
• 6 Jun 2019 in Senate: When I was a doctor, I used to see most of them. The ones who had the recessive type of the disease particularly would have one crisis after the other. What are the crises? It is the ability for these cells to clot in the narrowest level of the blood vessels. Therefore, they may be deposited in the brain or lungs causing a brain cardiovascular accident. They may be deposited in the lungs causing accidents such as difficulties in breathing. They may be deposited in the heart itself causing hear failure or heart attack. They may be deposited in the ... view
• 6 Jun 2019 in Senate: age of life. This is simple medication that can be given at the hospital, health centre and dispensary. Many of these children die unnoticed. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Mover is trying to seek that we now provide centres, particularly when we look at the prevalence rates of this disease. It is prevalent in Western Kenya and the Coastal Region. If you were in the United States of America (USA), it is present in the African Americans. If you are in South America, it is in the Hispanics; in Europe, it is Southern of Europe and in India, it is in ... view
• 6 Jun 2019 in Senate: previous ones. Marriage counselling has a benefit for doing screening first and it is important. The Motion says now that we know that what contributes to infant mortality and the ones that prevent them from going to school and other places is when they have these multiple crises and infection like malaria will precipitate thrombosis in various places. Just a simple fever or ear infection will cause those problems. These children need to be screened to be able to know when they are likely to run into a crisis and then use simple measure to be able to obviate any ... view
• 4 Jun 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir, for giving me the opportunity to add my voice to a very sad situation. In my career both as a politician and a student, I have never encountered a situation where water fronts are owned by individuals. It is a very strange situation. Even when you allocate plots, you can only allocate up to the front line of the waters. You cannot allocate plots beyond the territory of the waters. How an MoU can be signed and assign State resources to an individual to the exclusion of all the people who stay there; whose livelihoods ... view
• 4 Jun 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. First of all, I Sen. Sylvia Mulwa for bringing this Bill because there is so much that is misunderstood on matters of health, particularly mental health. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 4 Jun 2019 in Senate: If I had weighed in earlier during the debate, when the issues of argument that were coming out, I would have simply told you that more than 75 per cent of Kenyans suffer from depression. Depression need not be illness in itself because it may be something that affects your mood, thinking and behaviour. All these three elements put together on a higher proportion, you can safely say that somebody might be suffering from a mental illness. It does not mean the kind of mental lunacy that we talked about earlier. It does not mean the violent behavior, but even ... view
• 4 Jun 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when do these things become more expressive? Obviously, when you see a mental illness, it is a warning or red sign to you that something bigger is about to happen. For instance, the depression may move into a much more depressive mood and much more different from another depression that we know of, which is temporary and reversible. When you move into a reversible level, then you may exhibit certain behaviours which are anti-social, unbecoming and may require your temporary hospitalization. view
• 4 Jun 2019 in Senate: Once we understand the facts that cater or govern, for instance, anxieties, eating disorders that you may go through and the addictive behavior – you talked of cannabissativa – it is just one of the addictive agents that may lead to mood behaviour changes. It is not something that you want to deal with at this stage and call it something else bizarre. No, far from it. I wish we would appreciate that every one of us without exception, in one way, or the other, has gone through depression. When you were being born, your parents went through depression; just ... view