Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to commend the Committee. It undertook this study to highlight issues concerning referral hospitals on its own initiative. This is a preserve of the national Government as stipulated in the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution. The Report we are debating is an eye- The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 27 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: opener. It has raised issues that have been spoken of in hushed tones or occasionally in public, but have not been highlighted in an official report. view
• 27 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: I imagine that for us to achieve the Universal Health Care (UHC) coverage as contemplated in the Big Four Agenda, it is important that we establish a clear and adequate link between primary healthcare facilities and referral facilities. I believe and trust that a referral hospital is truly one. A matter that ought to come to referral hospitals is that which primary healthcare facilities are unable to deal with. That is why it is important to highlight a few issues that have come out clearly in this Report. view
• 27 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: If you have had a chance to go to various hospitals, you will find that they are congested. Indeed, a statement has been made in reference to Kenyatta National Hospital and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital that they are congested simply because cases that are not truly referral end up in these hospitals. It is, therefore, my presentation that as a nation we need to invest heavily in lower cadre medical facilities to ensure that these issues are dealt with at the initial stage. Early detection, or proper and correct diagnosis and management should be done so that a typical ... view
• 27 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: The NHIF has featured prominently in this Report. I commend the Departmental Committee on Health for having the courage to bring out the fundamental and structural issues bedeviling NHIF. Through the NG-CDF Committee, I have given 580 people in my constituency, through social facilities, NHIF cards which we dutifully pay for every month without fail to a tune of almost Kshs3.5 million each financial year. But it has been a depressing and stressing situation that an elderly sick person goes to most of the hospitals in my constituency and two things come out. One is that most of these hospitals ... view
• 27 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: As I conclude, let me make two suggestions. On the issue of regional referral hospitals and my colleagues have spoken about Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Referral Hospital in Kisumu, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 27 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Kakamega Referral Hospital, my suggestion is that the hospitals that used to be called provincial hospitals should with immediate effect or as soon as budget provisions allow, be made referral hospitals so that we do not have cases of people travelling all the way from Funyula to seek referral medical attention in Eldoret, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. I commend the MTRH because it has been the major point of referral for patients from the former Western Kenya and most parts of the Rift Valley. I commend its management and I wish others could replicate the same. view
• 27 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Secondly is the issue of training of medical staff. You can never have a functional medical system or health system without well equipped, trained and motivated staff. There are many cases of medical staff going on strike and many cases of doctors being fired. As a society, we need to respect the medical staff by training, equipping and remunerating them properly so that they get motivated to offer services. view
• 27 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I support the Report and hope that the Committee on Implementation, as Hon. Gladys Wanga has said, will not merely bring reports for debate here. This is will, with due respect to my friend the Vice Chair who is here, take action to implement the recommendations of the Committee where they are feasible and workable. Thank you. view
• 26 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to weigh in on this Petition. I want to make two comments. First, it is the issue on how we treat petitions in this House. Indeed, we have received so many petitions that are so important and so critical to the welfare of the people of Kenya. Unfortunately, we never have an opportunity to conclude those petitions to the satisfaction of the people of Kenya. Probably, in due course, we might have to look at our Standing Orders because it seems the Public Petitions to Parliament Act seems to rely so ... view