December 2019 cbsnews; It was something, the silence. Nothing but the puff of her breath and the scuff of her slip-on shoes as Madeleine Mukantagara walked through the fields to her first patient of the day. Piercing cries once echoed down the hill to the road below. What she carried …

December 2019 the standard; The biggest killer of our babies and young children today is the smoke caused by cooking with firewood and charcoal inside our homes. However, we are currently chasing goals to reduce childhood morbidity and mortality as if we genuinely did not have access to data showing …

December 2019 theStar; “I saw several Spaniards on the island of Hispanola who were reproached because of their bad habits. They answered it was impossible for them to stop smoking.” Bartholome de las Casas Other than ‘discovering’ America, the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, influenced the growth and use of Nicotina tobacum what …

December 2019 Business Daily; Kenyans are earning more on average; they are living slightly longer and staying in school for more years, boosting the country’s Human Development Index up one notch from position 148 in 2017 to 147 last year. According to the latest United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) index …

December 2019 theStar; There is one thing that everyone in the nutrition field, myself included, agrees on – foods containing artificial trans-fats are absolutely the worst you could eat. We’ve long suspected that trans-fats increase the risk of heart disease by promoting inflammation, and we now have good quality evidence …

December 2019 Daily nation; Embu County’s health committee has raised the alarm over purchase of 50 hospitals beds at a cost of Sh50,000 each, saying this is expensive. On a tour of Embu Level Five Hospital on Tuesday, the team chaired by Muturi Mwombo (Ruguru Ngandori Ward) noted that the …

December 2019 Daily nation;Six years ago, Gladys expected to get out of hospital with a bundle of joy when she checked herself in. She did not anticipate going through a problematic delivery. However, what followed saw her give birth to a child with severe cerebral palsy. Even though the wounds …

November 2019 Business Daily; Kenyan general labour costs, doctors’ fees and fraud are the largest components in the current pricing of healthcare. The cost is especially huge for the treatment of cancer, which has now risen to be among the top killers in the country, ranking third biggest cause of …

November 2019 DailyNation;The government has controversially cancelled a Sh4.9 billion contract for the provision of a Healthcare Information Technology (HCIT) system under the Managed Equipment Service (MES) in a move that could plunge the healthcare sector into a crisis. The contract had been awarded on October 2, 2017 to Seven …

November 2019 Business Daily; The Nairobi Hospital’s shareholders have voted in a new board following the ouster of eight of its directors. In an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) held on Wednesday, the members of the Kenya Hospital Association (KHA) — which owns the hospital — voted in Dr Irungu Ndirangu …