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Sen. Kittony No, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir.

Sen. Kittony Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir. I will give the response on Thursday next week.

Sen. Kittony Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I join you in welcoming the delegation in the Chamber today. I thank the officers who have come to learn. Your office is doing the right thing. I also thank the delegation from Bungoma County for giving the President an arousing welcome when...

Sen. Kittony Madam Temporary Speaker, I hereby lay the report on the Standing Committee on Health on the visit to the New Nyanza Provincial Hospital, Kisumu County, which was---

Sen. Kittony Madam Temporary Speaker, I am the Vice Chairperson of the Committee on Health.

Sen. Kittony Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the Senate today, Thursday, 12th November, 2015:- Report of the Standing Committee on Health on the visit to the New Nyanza Provincial General Hospital, Kisumu County, on 22nd May 2015. Report of the Standing...

Sen. Kittony Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to give a notice of Motion that the Senate adopts the reports of the Standing Committee on Health on the visit on the New Nyanza Provincial General Hospital, Kisumu County, the Kisii Five Level Hospital, Kisii County and the Kakamega Provincial Hospital, Kakamega...

Sen. Kittony Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to join you in welcoming the delegation of members of staff from the Parliament of Mozambique and to tell them to feel at home and enjoy the City in the Sun and Kenya at large. When they go back, they should take our...

Sen. Kittony Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I support this Motion and I congratulate the Mover, Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o for finding it fit to bring this Motion for deliberation this afternoon. I am particularly happy having known Kipchumba from his background because, like him, I come from Baringo District....

Sen. Kittony Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I know it was a court process, but those who nominated him should have helped him to continue being a Member of this House. I am sorry, it was a slip of the tongue.

Sen. Kittony Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I said in spite of all these, he is still a hard working person. I engage with him on many occasions. We come from the same home area. He means well. I have commended the Mover of this Motion because if he was not...

Sen. Kittony Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir.

Sen. Kittony Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me the opportunity to join you in welcoming the distinguished delegation from Homa Bay County. They have an urge to learn and I think that this is the right place for them. They have come from far to learn from...

Sen. Kittony Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have the supplementary information regarding the Statement to the Senate on the malaria outbreak in western Kenya and the inappropriate administration of the injectables in Busia County. This is the supplementary information requested as per the Senate HANSARD Report of 29th July, 2015....

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Sen. Kittony Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Member who requested this Statement is not in the House.

Sen. Kittony Mr. Speaker, Sir, you called out Statement 1 (b) . If it is Statement 1 (d) , it has already been referred to the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare. It is no longer in our hands. I have already advised Sen. Khaniri to that effect. I hope...

Sen. Kittony Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was advised to that effect by the Committee Clerk, that the Statement has been referred to the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare.

Sen. Kittony By the Clerk, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I cannot give a Statement which I do not have.

Sen. Kittony Mr. Speaker, Sir, I agree with that. However, I am giving you the latest information that I got. Either we take it---

Sen. Kittony Well, Mr. Speaker, Sir---

Sen. Kittony Mr. Speaker, Sir, they have not been able to get the Cabinet Secretary. So, the situation is similar to that of yesterday. The statement is ready, but the Cabinet Secretary has not appended his signature.

Sen. Kittony Mr. Speaker, Sir, I sympathise with the situation, but the Cabinet Secretary has not appended his signature to the Statement. That is the position that we are in.

Sen. Kittony (Spoke of record) . Therefore, the Statement has not reached our office, but they have told us it is ready. However, the signature has not been appended.

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Sen. Kittonytime, communicable diseases have exerted pressure on the available resources to the detriment of non-communicable diseases, which have lately become associated with high levels of mortality and morbidity. The resources gaps have also contributed to inadequate investment in cancer treatment.The NHIF does not categorize radiotherapy as outpatient treatment. It...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. First, let me thank Sen. Kittony for giving me the response. However, I wish to express my disappointment because I had requested this Statement on 16th March, 2015, when the issue was very serious. This is almost five months down the line when the Ministry...

Order, Senator! Seek clarification. Do not repeat what has been said. We heard what was said.

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am just building on that.

No, do not build on it.

Mr. Speaker, Sir, okay. Could the Ministry tell us what plans they have in replacing this 22 year old equipment that breaks down year in, year out, and Kenyans end up losing their lives? Secondly, now that they have introduced renal dialysis for those patients, why can the NHIF not...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, the reason it is has taken the Ministry so long to respond to this important Statement is because they are ashamed and embarrassed to bring such a response to this august House. Kenya has a population of 42 million. As we know, cancer is on the rise...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I appreciate the Vice Chairperson for the suggestion that we decentralize regions. In my understanding, our region is northern Kenya. I know the Vice Chairperson will be talking about the older provinces like Rift Valley. Cancer is becoming a killer disease in many regions. In Turkana County,...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a very serious issue. I seek to get clarification as to whether the Government is serious in the policy statements of providing health services to its people. This is because we are spending a lot of money sending patients to India to treat them. Just...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, chemotherapy machines normally destroy the normal body cells. That is why the appointments are not as frequent as maybe Kenyans would like them to be.

Before you proceed, Vice Chairman, Sen. Kisasa is out of order. It is not her business to respond. Sen. Kittony Mr. Speaker, Sir, I commend Sen. Adan for creating awareness because most of these Senators did not know what they have. Now, we are all aware that we have two...

On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The Vice Chairperson is misquoting Sen. Munyes. He said that instead of former provinces, the machines should go to the counties because of the distance.

That is correct to my understanding. She is not only misquoting, but also misrepresenting. Sen. Kittony Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have noted that. However, to respond to issue of the question having delayed for the past five months, this was not within our hands. It took so long with the...

What about Sen. Musila’s concerns? I want to remind the Vice Chairperson and all Members of the Committee on Health that in addition to your mandate, which must be obvious to all of us, there is also Article 47, and I have said this from this Chair repeatedly. It states...

On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I have a lot of respect for my sister Senator. With due respect, she has not addressed the issues that I raised. She only addressed the issue of delay. However, more fundamentally, I raised the issue of the hospital giving people ridiculous...

Sen. Kittonyperhaps the fact that you have not been able to raise the requisite quorum to pass things at the Committee Stage. You remember I even ordered this yesterday, that this afternoon, Members must be present to do the same. The fact that Members have failed to do so, tomorrow...

Sen. Kittony Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have the Statement requested by Sen. Dullo to include specific information on the suspension of radiotherapy treatment at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) .

Sen. Kittony Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Statement is ready, but the signature of the Cabinet Secretary has not been appended. He was out of office. We shall issue the Statement tomorrow.

Sen. Kittony Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is about the Statement on the Suspension of the Radiotherapy Treatment at the Kenyatta National Hospital. It was requested by Sen. Dullo Adan and she wanted the specific information as follows; May I have your indulgence? Sen. Dullo Adan requested me to give her...

Sen. Kittony Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Senator who requested for the second Statement is not present.

Sen. Kittony Mr. Speaker, Sir, that Statement has not reached us. So, I have no information. I will find out and bring you the answer tomorrow.

Sen. Kittony Mr. Speaker, Sir, that Statement has not come to us. I promise to table it tomorrow.

Sen. Kittony Most obliged, Mr. Speaker, Sir.

Sen. Kittony Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, maybe I am out of order, but I want to join you in welcoming the delegation from Kisii County Assembly. When we visited October 22, 2015 SENATE DEBATES Sen. KittonyKisii as the Committee on Health, we saw a lot of development. I would like...

Sen. Kittony Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we had a meeting this morning, but the issue did not come up. Therefore, I do not have a statement or anything more to say on this issue.

Sen. Kittony Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we will bring the statement on Wednesday, next week. (Sen. Khaniri consulted with other Senators)

Sen. Kittony Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me to contribute to this issue because I cannot be forced to give my personal condolences when I do not even know the person. However, I sympathize with the whole situation. However, condolences can only be received from the Committee where I am...

Sen. Kittony I am most obliged, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Our Committee treats all Kenyans equally. We care and it is their right---

Sen. Kittony Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I join you in welcoming the delegations to the Senate because it has been realised that the Senate is the right place for them. I also October 22, 2015 SENATE DEBATES Sen. Kittonywelcome the West Pokot delegations who are my neighbours and members of...

Sen. Kittony Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a serious issue that we are handling here. It is like giving a child a knife or letting them play with fire. We are creating monsters with such groups and this House is the right place to effect that. I support Sen....

Sen. Kittony Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice and congratulate the Mover of this Motion, Sen. Adan, for a very well researched Motion. I would like to add some amendments because the Motion is very clear that conditions of people in...