All parliamentary appearances
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20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we still do have a problem, particularly in KNH. I would like to urge this House, if possible, to give me extra funds to meet the pending bills left behind by patients who have already been discharged. We need about Kshs100 million to settle these pending bills.
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20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the money which was supposed to buy those equipment was, once again, redirected to the Ministry of Finance due to our problems of the war that we are handling. But this time, we are going to purchase these equipment.
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20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do have a shortage of staff. However, as I said, I will sit down with my Director of Medical Services and see whether we can either post a doctor or a nurse there immediately. If we are going to take a doctor from Dr. Khalwale’s hospital, I think he will be the first person to fight me. I am begging for some time so that this recruitment is processed so that we sort out this problem, once and for all. I am ready to go to Habaswein with the hon. Member and assess the ...
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13 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir. It has not changed much.
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13 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) A sum of Kshs1,749,776.90 which was meant to pay the contractor of Kibuline Dispensary, under the Economic Stimulus Programme Project was returned to the Treasury on 25th January, 2012 for re-voting, in line with the Government financial regulations. (b) Mr. Speaker, Sir, my Ministry has already released funds to the District Medical Officer of Health, Imenti North, amounting to Kshs1,749,776.90 for completion of Kibuline Model Health Centre. (c) My Ministry has already procured equipment through the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA) for distribution to all the model health centres in the country ...
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13 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank the hon. Member for that question. As I said earlier on, we have started distribution and by the end of this month we will have either 90 per cent or 100 per cent equipment distribution.
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13 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am not aware that we will be given extra funds to distribute to these facilities because as I have reported here, the last batch we were given was for the procurement of equipment and we have done that. We realize that the ESP was started in early 2010. The last batch we were given was for the equipment. We have already procured the equipment and distribution is in the process.
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13 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir that is also a very good question. As we are all aware, this equipment needs specialized staff and we are experiencing this problem as a Ministry. However, we had budgeted for the recruitment of new staff so that they can be trained, so that the equipment does not stay idle.
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13 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Indeed, Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is what happened and that is how we managed to procure all the equipment for all the 210 facilities in this country.
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13 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have already started operationalizing some of these facilities. I said earlier on that we have opened those facilities which have been completed. In fact, I have personally opened about five. If the hon. Member is ready with his facility, he can write to the Ministry and we can operationalize it.
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