June 2020 BusinessDaily; Jubilee Health Insurance Limited  and Nairobi Hospital are entangled in a dispute over multimillion-shilling claims, a standoff that has seen the hospital lock out clients insured by the country’s largest medical underwriter. Nairobi Hospital claims that Jubilee has not settled a Sh357 million bill that has been outstanding …

June 2020 theStar: A court case has exposed systemic loopholes in the Defence Forces Medical Insurance Scheme (Defmis), resulting in some cases of fraud. Some payments made to accredited service providers were made on the basis of forged documents, court paper say. A number of retired military officers in the …

June 2020 theStandard: Crooks from the Ministry of Health officials, Kenya Revenue Authority and rogue businessmen from China tried stealing donated Covid-19 kits for Kenyan health workers. Investigations by The Standard have revealed an intricate scheme that involves possible collusion between Chinese businessmen, government officers and other local operatives to …

June 2020 Dailynation: The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) is looking into two separate theft reports relating to donated Covid-19 equipment in March, when the Ministry of Health was plotting how to combat the virus that has now infected 4,374 people in Kenya. While the police at Mazingira House have …

June 2020 theStandard: The Health Ministry has warned of counterfeit Covid-19 testing kits that have penetrated the market and advised Kenyans to only use the real-time PCR tests approved by the World Health Organization (WHO).This is as another 184 people test positive for the coronavirus today, raising the national tally …

June 2020 BBC: A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus. The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say. The drug is part of the world’s biggest trial testing existing treatments to …

June 2020 geekwire; The last time we caught up with Pillsy co-founders Jeff LeBrun and Chuks Onwuneme, three years ago, they were focused on their flagship product, a smart pill bottle that sounds an alarm if people forget to take their pills. But that was just one example of the broader …

June 2020 nbcnews; The Food and Drug Administration rescinded the emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients on Monday, saying the drug carries too many risks without any apparent benefit. The authorization was first issued in March, and applied to patients hospitalized with the illness and those in clinical …

June 2020 BusinessDaily: Some 19 healthcare workers are currently hospitalised in various facilities across the country after they tested positive for Covid-19.Some 19 healthcare workers are currently hospitalised in various facilities across the country after they tested positive for Covid-19. This now takes to 72 the total number of healthcare …

June 2020 KHN;The U.S. health care system is famously resistant to government-imposed change. It took decades to create Medicare and Medicaid, mostly due to opposition from the medical-industrial complex. Then it was nearly another half-century before the passage of the Affordable Care Act. But the COVID-19 pandemic has done what …