Hon Swarup Ranjan Mishra

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• 8 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: I am overwhelmed and humbled by the support that my colleagues have extended to me in this august House. It will be written in history as far as the health of Africa is concerned that we Africans are the best people in the world with the best hearts. We know how to welcome and forgive. With these hearts, Kenya will be the destination for medical tourism and travels. People will be treated well at home with a lot of dignity, pride, love and also care. So, this is the beginning of a great journey and, with all due respect to ... view
• 12 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I did not understand my two seniors said that they blame the leadership of the Senate. Whom do they blame? Which leader do they blame? Is it the Leader of the Majority Party, Leader of the Minority Party, Whips or the Speaker? I want to be guided on that. view
• 12 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Two, when you do not try to conceive with a lady, you cannot know whether she is fertile or not. Unless you marry her, you cannot know whether she can give birth to a baby or not. Similarly, unless you try to make a law, you cannot know its pros and cons. We, the National Assembly, have a big role to play in the counties governance, as far as budget is concerned in different committees. We should be part and parcel of the Senate to govern, vet and check accountability of county governments. The Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) is coming ... view
• 12 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you very much. view
• 12 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to move: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 12 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: THAT, the Health (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.64 of 2019) be now read a Second Time. The principle object of this Bill is to amend the Health Act No.21 of 2017 to introduce a new section that seeks to provide for the development of policy guidelines to regulate the referral of patients to health institutions both within and outside the country. The new section will ensure that the relevant stakeholders are involved in the process of developing such policy guidelines so as to ensure that the process of referral to hospitals outside the country is not subjected to abuse. ... view
• 12 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, a medical referral also known as medical tourism is described as the travel across international borders with the intention of seeking some form of medical and surgical treatment, which also includes sports, diagnostics and curative care. As far as classification is concerned, it is domestic and cross border referrals that differentiates medical tourism. As far as the global prospective is concerned, 14 million people in the world travel every year with expenses of US$20 billion. The African medical tourism prospective is US$3.8 billion or approximately US$4 billion, and 30 per cent of the patients go to ... view
• 12 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Kshs10 billion every year. The age disparity varies from three weeks to 84 years old people, and females are slightly dominating as far as gender is concerned. The most preferred destination for Kenya is India at 96 per cent and 4 per cent in the rest of the world with private facility referrals at 81 per cent and public sector referral at 19 per cent. The disciplines under which we referred from Kenya are: Oncology37 per cent, Renal 21 per cent, Cardiology and Heart, 19 per cent, Elective Surgical Procedures and others 23 percent. The indications which medical referral usually ... view
• 12 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: patients who are referred should be properly vetted by a specialised technical authoritative board or committee for documentation to avoid fraudulence. The foreign medical referral hospitals should be determined by or selected by the Kenya Government on the basis of competitiveness of the international … view
• 12 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Certainly. I am almost. The potential of Kenya as a preferred medical tourism destination is its geographical location of connectivity by road, air and water, high skilled personnel availability, growing health education, advanced health policing with supplementary UHC and a mature democracy with political stability. With those few conclusive remarks, I hope that if and when these amendments are passed, the CS Health shall put in place the necessary statutory instruments to help realise the very noble intentions of these amendments. I wish to thank the Chairperson, Members and staff of the Departmental Committee on Health for the facilitation, expertise, ... view