Health CS Susan Nakhumicha on Tuesday acknowledged that the health sector in the country needs to be improved. Nakhumicha was speaking when she received a petition from doctors on the status of healthcare in the country.
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00:00 for coming to bring your petition to us.
00:04 We got the notification yesterday that you will be bringing a petition,
00:09 which I have received from your Secretary General, Dr. Davji,
00:16 and I can see that the chair is here.
00:18 I have the petition with me.
00:20 And I want to agree with you that the status of health in this country needs improvement.
00:26 That is a fact. That the issues that you have raised here are statements of fact.
00:32 We are on the same page.
00:34 So what you need to do is to allow us to go through these petitions.
00:38 And you know that the stakeholders of health care is not just the Ministry of Health.
00:44 We have many other stakeholders that I have to avail this document to.
00:49 Then we come to a table, sit and discuss and provide a solution.
00:54 And I want you to be part of the solution.
00:56 Please do not be part of the problem.
00:58 We have had problems for many years.
01:00 And I believe this time round we are going to resolve the issues.
01:03 So long as you participate in the table of resolving the issues.
01:08 So I want to acknowledge having received your documents.
01:11 I see you are going to take one to COG and I am very happy.
01:15 Because they are your employers really.
01:17 90% of you work with the county governments.
01:19 So I am happy that you have put them here.
01:22 The other stakeholder you have put is the National Assembly.
01:24 They are the ones who allocate resources.
01:27 Everything that you have written here at the end of the day needs resources.
01:31 So if you take this petition to the National Assembly, they read through it.
01:35 We sit together and together we find solutions.
01:38 And we have said October is the month that we want to celebrate HHC.
01:42 And we have put two days of discussing HRH.
01:46 Nothing but HRH.
01:48 So please be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
01:52 But thank you very much for giving me this document.
01:55 Allow us to go through it.
01:57 And I agree that then we shall call you when we are ready with the solutions.
02:02 Sawa Sawa.
02:05 Thank you.
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