Universal Health 2030 Solving Complex Health System Problems
August 2019 theStar; A baby born weighing 400 grammes has been discharged from KNH after reaching 3.5kg. Baby Jeremy was born at 25 weeks. He’s been nurtured and managed by Kenyatta National Hospital doctors for five months until he attained 3.5kg. Baby Hope Obonyo, who was also born at the …
Read More »KENYA: Alarm as 60 babies die at Kiambu Level Five Hospital
February 2019 DailyNation;On January 28 at around 9am, Ms Naomi Gathoni from Ikinu village in Githunguri was rushed to the Kiambu Level Five Hospital by her mother in-law, Rose Wangari, after she developed labour pains. Three days later, Ms Gathoni delivered a bouncing baby girl, weighing 3.8kg through caesarean section. …
Read More »KENYA:Nairobi listed most dangerous county for newborns
September 2018 Standardmedia; Pumwani Maternity Hospital is only one of five overstretched health facilities in Nairobi County where death of newborns is routine. In April and May, the Nairobi County Government published reports listing Nairobi as the most dangerous county for newborns in Kenya. During the one-year study period, some …
Read More »KENYA:Mothers and newborns stranded at Mbagathi Hospital
May 2018 BusinessDaily; Mothers and newborns were on Wednesday morning left in pain and stranded following a 2am fire at the maternity wing of Mbagathi Hospital in Nairobi. The fire is suspected to have been caused by a power blackout that plunged the hospital into pitch darkeners after one of …
Read More »KENYA: Patients continue to suffer as doctors’ strike continues
January 2017 DailyNation; Far reaching effects of the debilitating medics’ strike on Thursday continued to sink in with more than 200 people succumbing to their ailments, Saturday Nation can report. Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu this week failed to release the exact figures of Kenyans who have died, but going …
Read More »SOUTH AFRICA: Statistics South Africa On Recorded Live Births 2013-2015 and Perinatal Deaths 2014 Report
October 2016 STATS SA; The Recorded live births 2013−2015 and the Perinatal deaths 2014, reports released by Statistics South Africa indicate that of the 1 084 511 birth registrations in 2015, 87,7% of these were current registrations, while 12,3% were late registrations, while 21 908 perinatal deaths were recorded in …
Read More »UN Health Agency Takes Steps to Help Improve Data On Stillbirths, Maternal and Neonatal Deaths
August 2016 UNnews; Most stillbirths and neonatal deaths are preventable with quality health care during pregnancy and childbirth, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) stressed today as it launched three new publications to help countries address and strengthen their classification, review, and investigation processes on these deaths, which are …
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