December 2017 Yahoonews;In a remarkably strong show of consumer demand, nearly 9 million people signed up for “Obamacare” next year, as government numbers out Thursday proved predictions of its collapse wrong yet again. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said more than 8.8 million people have signed up in …

December 2017 Dailynation; Patients in public health facilities in Tharaka-Nithi County have been forced to buy drugs in private pharmacies following an acute shortage of medicine. Speaking to the Nation at the Chuka County Referral Hospital on Monday, Ms Mary Kageni, said she was contemplating transferring her sick brother to …

December 2017 BusinessDaily; The Aga Khan University Hospital and an India-based hospital will next year separately install PET-CT scan cancer diagnosis machines locally, cutting medical costs for patients who travel abroad for the service. The Aga Khan University Hospital will offer the PET-CT scan from March while Bangalore-based HealthCare Global Enterprises …

December 2017 Standardmedia; Even before it is officially commissioned, the design variations and challenge of constructing a highway in a densely populated area are likely to haunt users of Outer Ring Road. With a similar design to Thika Superhighway, the 13km stretch of eight lanes of tarmac at its widest end …

December 2017 BusinessDaily; President Paul Kagame’s government has become the latest in Africa to ban smoking of water-pipe tobacco, popularly known as shisha, starting Friday. Rwanda becomes the second country in Africa to ban shisha smoking after Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli imposed the ban in July last year. Other countries …

December 2017 Standardmedia;Human error is to blame for the dozens of lives lost on road crashes in the last few days, the transport authority has said. On Tuesday, the National transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) came out to its defense saying ‘in all the accidents human error is directly responsible.’ …

December 2017 Standardmedia; If you go to a county hospital today, chances are high you will be referred to a private pharmacy for your medication. A shortage of drugs has hit medical facilities across Naibobi as a result of a Sh285 million debt the county government owes the Kenya Medical Supplies …

December 2017 Standardmedia; Medical practitioners in all public health facilities have been ordered to close down their private clinics or face the sack. Governor Anne Waiguru has also directed pharmacists in public hospitals to work on 24-hour shift, to ensure patients are not referred to private chemists to buy medicine yet …

November 2017 Dailynation; Governors have opposed a proposal to reverse treatment and management of cancer to the Ministry of Health. The governors said the ministry could not claim back the management of cancer since health is a devolved function and that it would be the beginning of recentralising equipment, “to the …

November 2017 Dailynation; Police are holding a patient who shot and killed a nurse at Chiromo Lane Medical Centre in Nairobi.  The man who is a civilian firearm holder, went to seek treatment at the hospital Wednesday evening when his firearm discharged a bullet hitting the nurse. Gigiri police boss Vitalis …