December 2013 UHCForward;The Union Health Ministry plans to tap the possibilities of social marketing (SM) and social franchising (SF) as effective tools to reach out to the rural population and scale up healthcare delivery under its flagship programmes, said Anuradha Gupta, additional secretary of Health and mission director of National …

November 2013 DailyNation; Mandera governor Ali Roba has said the devolution of health services is key to reducing the alarming maternal mortality rate in his county.Mr Roba has urged the national government to speed up the decentralisation of public healthcare services to county governments in order to save the lives …

November 2013 CapitalFM; A meeting of key players in the health sector on Tuesday agreed that unions, governors and the ministry be given two weeks to resolve the impasse arising from the devolution of medical services. The consultative meeting of stakeholders that was chaired by President Uhuru Kenyatta at State …

November 2013 theStar; The Trans Nzoia county government has allocated Sh135 million for health.Addressing the press yesterday in a Kitale hotel, Governor Patrick Khaemba said Sh5 million will be used to procure a generator while Sh10 million will be for buying coolers for the Kitale District Hospital mortuary. “The mortuary …

November 2013  TheNewTimes; VULNERABLE FAMILIES in Nyamagabe and Rutsiro are set to benefit from a $3.319 million (Rwf2.2 billion) project that seeks to fight malnutrition in the two districts. Families to benefit from the project are those under categories 1 and 2 of Ubudehe classicifation programme, according to officials. The …

November 2013 YahooNews; Since it’s the holiday shopping season, imagine for a moment that Amazon (AMZN) could only fulfill your purchase requests 80% of the time. If their servers were overloaded, you’d get a message inviting you to come back later. Amazon would even offer to send you an alert …

November 2013 ; Nurses at the Levy Mwanawasa General Hospital have joined their colleagues at the University Teaching Hospital by downing tools following government’s failure to meet their demands. The nurses at the University Teaching Hospital have continued their strike action despite Health Minister Joseph Kasonde ordering them to go …

November 2013  Health-e; Major Gauteng hospitals such as Steve Biko and Charlotte Maxeke academic hospitals are struggling to cope with the patient loads, leaving some waiting months for treatment. When these patients do reach the front of the queue, their care is compromised due to regular equipment breakdowns, and shortages …

November 2013 ThisDay; The multiplicity of conflicting data on health by various agencies is a major impediment to an effective and efficient health care delivery system in the country. Director, Disease Control and Immunisation, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Emmanuel Abanida said resolving the conflict in the …

November 2013 DailyNews;An infant gets respiratory difficulties and it will take not more than five minutes before it loses its life, that being one among many causes leading to deaths of 144 infants daily, making it 48,000 of them per annum in Tanzania. In a similar case, a woman gets …