May 2021 Reuters ; The agency is reviewing several dozen reports that teenagers and young adults may have developed myocarditis after vaccination, officials said. But the agency has not determined whether the vaccine caused the condition. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is looking into reports that a …

May 2021 the Star ;Kenya has received 130,000 more doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. The vaccines, which arrived in Nairobi on Thursday morning, came from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has said it is unable to administer about 1.3 million doses before expiry on June 24. The DRC …

May 2021 Businessdaily; Every adult Kenyan will soon make an annual compulsory Sh6,000 contribution to the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) if Parliament adopts State-backed changes to law in race to offer medical cover for all. The government-backed National Hospital Insurance Fund (Amendment) Bill seeks to make it compulsory for …

May 2021 Businessdaily; Kenyan employers face additional burden of statutory deductions if Parliament passes a Bill that requires business owners to match workers’ monthly contributions to the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). Doubling the Sh1,700 that top contributors make to the NHIF ranks high on the list of targeted changes …

May 2021 Businessdaily ; Top referral Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) will close its doors to walk-in patients starting this July as part of decongestion of the facility, Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) Director-General Mohamed Badi has said. The new development, he said, will allow the country’s biggest hospital to concentrate on …

May 2021 the WashingtonPost ;When Achea Redd used to go for annual checkups, she tried to discuss her restrictive eating patterns with her doctors and her fear that she might have an eating disorder. But because her body mass index (BMI) was in the “overweight” category, Redd’s primary care physicians …

May 2021 BusinessDaily; The Nairobi Hospital has laid off more than 200 workers in a move aimed at cutting costs and clearing out staff implicated in a recent graft audit. The hospital said the affected workers had either performed poorly or had been involved in unethical practices that were exposed …

April 2021 the standard ;Kenya Catholic Doctors Association chairman Dr Stephen Karanja (pictured), previously accused of spreading false information on the coronavirus vaccine, has died of Covid-19. Dr Karanja passed away today at the Mater Hospital where he was admitted to the High Dependency Unit. A message seen by The …

April 2021 YahooNews; Israel’s Health Ministry said on Sunday it is examining a small number of cases of heart inflammation in people who had received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, though it has not yet drawn any conclusions.    Pfizer said it has not observed a higher rate of the condition than would …

April 2021 YahooNews ; Britain is no longer in a pandemic, experts have said, as new data showed the vaccination programme is reducing symptomatic Covid infections by up to 90 per cent. In the first large real-world study of the impact of vaccination on the general population, researchers found that the rollout …