Zachary Kwenya Thuku

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: At NYS, our young men and women acquire skills not just in paramilitary training. Some of them pursue engineering, catering and dressmaking courses, among others. We are supposed to have a policy to ensure that we have a retention mechanism, as much as we let a few to be absorbed elsewhere. The Government invests heavily in NYS. The NYS have camps and equipment all over the country. Many young men and women have been trained in civil and mechanical engineering but, when it comes to construction of roads, we still outsource from China because we do not enhance the capacity ... view
• 27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I second the Motion. view
• 3 May 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the President’s State of the Nation Address. At the outset, I was pleased with the Address. The message that he sent across the country is that now we have reconciled and it is back to business, planning and doing what we were elected to do as Members of this House. I applaud the unity that he exhibited yesterday by briefing the House on how he met the Right Hon. Raila Odinga, who played a big role in the democratisation process of this country. This is a ... view
• 3 May 2018 in National Assembly: legislate and come up with the best laws devoid of our selfish interests. We want to pull everything to ourselves and forget other parts of the nation. If we pull together with a common objective, we will alleviate poverty and everybody will be within, at least, a middle level income bracket. That is what we would call an achievement. I want to support and was impressed with the Presidential Address. Thank you. view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this very important Motion, which is on a Report by the Departmental Committee on Health. I want to state that this Report should have come like yesterday because this is one facility whose reputation is at its lowest at this moment in time. Nevertheless, we cannot under- estimate or underrate its importance in this country. It is a facility that has had its success stories before. view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: I want to agree with the Hon. Members who have contributed before me. I want to register their concern that we cannot afford to bash the doctors, nurses and the facility generally. That is because many lives have been saved there. We have had so many successes. Therefore, as much as we have a responsibility, we cannot afford to go that route. Our responsibility to mend and come up with solutions cannot be limited in any way to the extent that we cannot bring out the wrongs that we have identified, as Members of Parliament sitting in the Departmental Committee ... view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: As we inquired into those matters, we realised that KNH is no longer the facility that it used to be. It used to be a referral hospital. Currently, people refer themselves to that facility for every kind of ailment. This begs the question: What kind of referral system do we have? It seems like we do not have any? As you know, health is a human right. Access to medical care is a basic fundamental human right. Therefore, you cannot chase away a patient who has gone to KNH. He has to get treatment. From my own findings, the average ... view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: workers. They are short of that by 1,500 workers. It then means that the many problems we witness there are as a result of shortage of human resource. At one point I asked a nurse, one of those who come before our Committee, why they do not have compassion and yet, KNH is an institution that is supposed to be compassionate. The response was that they work for 12 hours attending to an average of about 40 patients per nurse. How then can they be expected to smile? I also wanted to gauge in a scale of one to ten, ... view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: That particular nurse, Mary, was supposed to look after about 40 patients in a ward in that particular night. She was unwell and that is the report we got. The question that begs for an answer is the systems that KNH has. They have standard operating procedures that are never followed. Why? It is because there is laxity on the part of management. Nurses fall under the director of nursing, a director of clinical services and an accounting officer. It is a systemic failure that needs to be addressed. That is why I support this Report in its amended form ... view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: There are some emerging issues that need some reaction, but there are no plans. It is painful. Luckily, as a Committee, this House and as a Government, I want us to think about the county hospitals that we have. They do not have the capacity to handle some cases. It is not that they do not have the capacity; it is because they are not building it. Every year, we allocate money to county governments. What do they do with that money? They buy ambulances so that when they have patients, they rush them to KNH. So, KNH is overloaded. ... view