Hon Swarup Ranjan Mishra

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• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Third, the hospital caters for a huge number of capital offenders due to delay by the legal system in collecting these patients even after their letters of culpability to stand trials have been issued. This has overstretched the facility’s meagre resources. view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Fourth, a majority of the patients at the facility are those who have been abandoned by their families due to the stigma associated with mental illness. view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Fifth, one major cause of the Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital’s financial challenges is as a result of it serving patients referred by the Judiciary and the National Police Service for mental assessment for suitability to take plea and such patients do not pay the facility neither do the referring agencies make any compensation to the hospital for the expenses incurred. Sixth, the Maximum Security Unit of the hospital where patients are referred to from police custody and the Judiciary is overcrowded and is faced with security challenges. In addition, patients in this unit have overstayed in the facility ... view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. As a training institution, Mathari offers its training facilities to other hospital workers without commensurate compensation or facilitation. Although teaching and research is one of the core functions of the hospital, the high demand for training has overstretched the hospital’s available training facilities. Though classified as a national teaching and referral hospital, the facility has no autonomy as it is still managed as a unit in the Ministry of Health. Many of the patients are not registered with the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) due to lack of identification cards. Further, the NHIF took ... view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Most of the hospital’s equipment donated by well-wishers are inoperative and lack service contracts hence making it hard and expensive for the hospital to repair them. The facility’s kitchen space is limited. It lacks a cold room to store vegetables and the nutritionists are also overworked as they double as caterers. Due to delay of NHIF reimbursements, the agency owed the hospital between Kshs5 million to Kshs6 million. The hospital benefited from the Ministry Managed Equipment System (MES) where it acquired essential equipment such as MRI scan, digital x-ray, fluoroscopy C-Arm machine and theatre equipment. The Moi Teaching and Referral ... view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: overstretched and has previously faced several crises, caused by grossly inadequate funding, industrial action, outdated equipment, staff inadequacy and suffers the burden from an almost collapsing county healthcare system. The hospital was severely constrained due to perennial underfunding. This has seen lack of plant and equipment maintenance and replacement. The hospital currently needs Kshs3.6 billion, plus an additional Kshs4.9 billion for the upcoming financial year. Lack of critical equipment has seen services severely hampered. The CT-scan project by the Ministry that is earmarked for the hospital is yet to be delivered while procurement of MRI scan has taken inordinately long. ... view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: prescriptions to cure the ills. Central to this is the provision of adequate resources. A majority of these problems can be partly solved by increase in resource allocation, even within the Ministry’s ceiling through prioritisation. This was the basis of the Committee’s re-allocations in the just concluded budgetary Estimates that the Budget and Appropriations Committee declined to adopt. I plead that recommendations of the departmental committees should be seriously taken into account, lest we go around the country playing oversighting role then nothing comes out of it. The problems I have enumerated here can only be solved when we seriously ... view
• 13 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. view
• 13 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this chance. I want to seek your guidance and that of this House. The rules of Parliament should be followed respectfully by our invited guests. I can see some international guest on the phone as we debate. Secondly, the same guest did not care to stand when we were all standing. view
• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for allowing me to speak. This is our country and the people on strike are Kenyans. Without Kenyans, we have no business sitting here. I challenge Hon. Junet. How can he say that this is not the business of Parliament? It is a business of security. It is business of international relations and of transport. You want to paralyse Kenya and sit here as an MP! For what? I support, Hon Babu Owino that we should take it seriously because our people are suffering. Those striking are not our enemies. Strikers are fathers of ... view