EAST AFRICAN NEWS

April 2017 DailyNation; Patients from neighbouring countries are straining health budgets in counties at Kenya’s borders and now their executives want more money from the national government to take care of the foreigners. To its 850,000 residents, Busia County has an extra 300,000 Ugandans that seek medical care from the …

April 2017 DailyNation; Over 400 doctors from four central Kenya counties have vowed to paralyse activities in public hospitals from Thursday over delayed salaries, deplorable state of the facilities and poor staffing. The doctors also accused the government of failing to implement a return-to-work formula that they signed when the …

April 2017 Businessdaily;At least 230,000 Kenyans are using Safaricom’s healthcare app M-Tiba, representing a five-fold growth since the product was rolled out nationwide six months ago. M-Tiba allows users to save money that can be redeemed later to pay medical bills. Safaricom chief executive, Mr Bob Collymore, last week said …

April Businessdaily; Bangalore-based Healthcare Global Enterprises Ltd (HCG), one of India’s largest cancer treatment hospital chains, has agreed to buy a majority stake in a Kenyan cancer care centre. HCG will buy a 93.66 per cent stake in Nairobi-based Cancer Care Kenya Ltd (CCK) for Sh93.15 million in cash, the Indian company …

April BusinessDaily; MPs have ordered an audit of the Sh38-billion programme to supply hospitals with modern equipment. This follows the refusal by the Health ministry to hand over the contracts for scrutiny by the Health Committee. The recommendation was made by the Budget and Appropriations Committee in a report adopted …

March 2017 DailyNation; Two Kenyan trainee doctors on the police list of wanted terrorists have been killed in a sting operation in Libya. Farah Dagane Hassan, 26 and Hiish Ahmed Ali, 25, who were interns at Kitale hospital before they fled Kenya, died in the Libyan city of Sirte after …

March 2017 DailyNation; Male circumcision reduces the colonies of bacteria found on the penis which increase the risk of contracting HIV, a new study has shown. The study, presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections last month, showed that uncircumcised men have more bacteria in the genital region, …

March 2017 Addisstandard; The first state-of-the-art National Public Health Training Center, constructed by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with funding from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), was formally inaugurated and handed over to the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) today.   Chargè …

March 2017 DailyNation; The budget for leasing medical equipment at the counties has been cut by Sh1 billion, setting the stage for a row between the government and multinationals supplying the kits. The Budget and Appropriations Committee has cut the allocation of the leasing fees from Sh4.5billion set by the …

March 2017 DailyNation; Authorities have sounded the alarm over fraudsters robbing the public of millions of shillings by pretending that they are good Samaritans rushing their targeted victim’s child to hospital from a road accident scene. Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), the largest referral facility in the region, said it had …