January 2020 BusinessDaily; About half of hospitals in Kenya do not regularly remove expired or unusable medicines from their shelves, a new survey by the Health ministry has shown. The Kenya Harmonised Health Facility Assessment report for 2018/19 indicates that only 54 percent of health facilities, both public and private, have records …
Read More »USA: One Medical, the health clinic chain backed by Alphabet, has hired banks ahead of an IPO
October 2019 CNBC; One Medical, a chain of primary care clinics that’s backed by Google’s parent company Alphabet and tries to bring a modern feel to the typical doctor’s office, has hired banks including J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley for its IPO, according to people familiar with the matter. The company, which was valued at …
Read More »KENYA: Kenyan medical students to train in Barbados in Uhuru pact
August 2019 theStar; Kenya and Barbados have resolved to expand areas of cooperation and create more economic opportunities for citizens of the two nations. President Uhuru Kenyatta and Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley of Barbados agreed that increased economic engagement will form the foundation for rekindling the historical bilateral ties …
Read More »USA:Struggling to stay alive: Rising insulin prices cause diabetics to go to extremes
March 2019 Yahoo News;Meaghan Carter died alone on the sofa of her suburban Dayton, Ohio, apartment last Christmas. Like most people with Type 1 diabetes, the 47-year-old nurse had a kit of essential supplies within reach. It contained two empty vials of her preferred insulin, a partial vial of inexpensive …
Read More »African Women Who Undergo Caesarean Section 50 Times More Likely To Die Than Women In Wealthy Nations, Study Shows
March 2019 voanews; The death rate among women undergoing a C-section to deliver a baby is about 50 times higher in Africa than in most wealthy nations, researchers said Friday. One in 200 women dies during or soon after a cesarean in a sampling of nearly 3,700 births across 22 …
Read More »KENYA:KNH in cash crunch over Sh1 billion debt
January 2019 BusinessDaily; Kenyatta National Hospital is in deep financial trouble after the National Hospital Insurance Fund failed to pay Sh800 million it owes the giant medical institution. The hospital operations are already in peril, putting the lives of thousands of patients, who depend on the facility, at risk with …
Read More »KENYA:French lender pumps Sh150m into Safaricom-backed M-Tiba
January 2019 Business Daily; The French Development Agency (AFD) has invested Sh150 million in Safaricom-backed healthcare app M-Tiba that will go towards growing the number of individuals and healthcare providers on the platform. The cash injection will be used to on-board a targeted 500 new healthcare providers to the app …
Read More »USA: Drug companies greet 2019 with U.S. price hikes
January 2019 Yahoo news; Drugmakers kicked off 2019 with price increases in the United States on more than 250 prescription drugs, including the world’s top-selling medicine, Humira, although the pace of price hikes was slower than last year. The industry has been under pressure by the U.S. President Donald Trump …
Read More »KENYA: From tainted blood to toxic soils and water, patients face dangers
November 2018 Standard media; Some of the blood transfused in hospitals is contaminated with dangerous substances. This chilling admission by insiders at the blood transfusion centre comes amid reports that some patients were being dangerously exposed to cancer causing radiation, while most soils and Lake Victoria water are contaminated with toxic chemicals. The …
Read More »KENYA:Cuban doctors head home, leaving Brazilian towns with no care
November 2018 Yahoonews; The first of thousands of Cuban doctors began to return home on Thursday after criticism by Brazil’s far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro prompted Cuba’s government to sever a cooperation agreement, leaving millions of Brazilians without medical care. Bolsonaro said the Cuban doctors were being used as “slave labor” …
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