Eng. Stephen Muriuki Ngare

All parliamentary appearances

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• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me a chance to say a few words in support of this very important Motion. The Motion is asking for the establishment of public health complaint boards, specifically so that rights violations by medical personnel can be documented and, hopefully, also be acted upon. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Motion itself is quite wide. I think I would like to take the few minutes I have to also attempt to go a bit further in this Motion and look at what these issues are. In my view, I think the Motion is ... view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: you find the medical personnel and support staff there are quite courteous and so on. So, it is something to do with the training which, again, we need to look at as a nation. view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the fourth item which I am looking at in this Motion is indiscipline, which I think is quite serious. When you have a case like the one cited by the Mover of the Motion which was very well highlighted across the media where a poor mother who went to hospital and it became necessary for a caesarian operation; the doctor was fetched from a bar, came in drunk, left the poor mother open with the baby and they died. I think the country should not condone a case of pure indiscipline like this one. We must reach ... view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the other issue that I would wish to raise is on the other side with regard to the staff themselves. Sometimes you look at the medical staff, notwithstanding the fact that we would not want to condone the actions, mistreatment and so on, they are sometimes also very much frustrated. Sometimes you find the kind of working hours, they have are crazy and they have no facilities. I have seen medical staff working in public hospitals – not so the private ones – late into the night. There is no way of minding how they come to ... view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, lastly, there was a petition here that was brought by one of the Senators on behalf of the clinical officers and nurses. Maybe this is not the correct time for us to ventilate on that petition. However, allow me to say one or two things regarding that petition or rather some issues that relate to this Motion. We have now devolved our Government. All the nurses, doctors and clinical officers were employed by the national Government. So, maybe a person who was employed as a clinical officer started working in Mombasa and then got transferred to Kakamega, ... view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: now finds himself under devolution? In my view, perhaps, this Motion should translate to an amendment or creation of some legislation. We need to put it in law. But we also need to look at the way the medical staff are employed within this country, so that the Senate can properly legislate on how to deploy people who are employed by the national Government, but now find themselves having to work under a particular county government without proper definition as to whether or not they should continue working there permanently. So, I think that the Senate has a job to ... view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, with those few words, I beg to support. view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, mine is a small contribution. It is to do with any proposed amendment to the Constitution which has been in the air and in the Senate, so far. We are now debating a Bill whose figures we, as Senate, did not agree with initially. However, we have no choice because the counties have to operate. When I look at it, I think what is wrong as a country is that we are doing the budget upside down. We should have started by we, the Senators, engaging the counties so that each one of them tells us ... view
• 25 Jul 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to also take part in ventilating a little bit on this issue. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, unlike few other speakers, personally I find that there is a certain amount of merit in this Petition because we are debating or discussing this, as it were, without full information. As the Chair ruled or directed earlier, after we ventilate for a while, this matter should be committed to the relevant Committee – and I presume this is the Committee on Devolution I think that is the correct way to go because ... view
• 24 Jul 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me a chance to contribute to this very important Motion. I do not know how accurate the statistics quoted in the Motion are, but presuming that they are accurate, it would mean that our country is losing sight of a very important industry which, over the years, I think the economy has ignored. This looks like it dates back to the colonial days when some areas of this country were designated as being high potential areas while others were designated low potential areas. After Independence, I think we just swallowed the whole ... view