EAST AFRICAN NEWS

April 2020 Daily nation; The board of the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) has appointed Dr Peter Kamunyo Gathenge as the new chief executive officer with effect from next week on Tuesday. Dr Gathenge, a health care executive, takes over from Nicodemus Odongo who has been performing the role in …

April 2020 TheStandard; A patient who tested positive for coronavirus is under ventilation support, Ministry of Health Director-General Dr Patrick Amoth has revealed.During today’s routine briefing on the status of Covid-19 in the country, Dr Amoth said the patient was doing well and should be out of the ventilator in …

April 2020 theStandard; Fifteen Kenyans and a Nigerian have tested positive for Coronavirus. The 16 now move the national tally of active cases to 142 with 138 active cases. Out of the number, 11 have history of travel. Nine of the new cases were reported from the quarantine facilities. The …

April 2020 StandardNews; The Nairobi Hospital has suspended operations at all its six satellite clinics in a bid to help in the fight against coronavirus pandemic.The hospital management also recalled all staff to the main hospital to support inpatient management amid the pandemic.Chief Executive Officer Dr Allan Pamba said the …

April 2020 theStar; Health CS Mutahi Kagwe has announced 29 new Covid-19 cases, pushing the total number of patients past the 100 mark to 110. Out of this, 28 are Kenyans, while one is Congolese. In the last 24 hours, the government tested 662 samples, out of which the 29 …

April 2020 theStar; A clinical officer in Nairobi has become Kenya’s first health worker to contract coronavirus in the line of duty. She was taken ill last week at Ngara Health Centre in Nairobi, where she works. Her husband has also been confimed positive. Both are admitted and isolated at …

March 2020 theStar; The government has said it is projecting the confirmed cases of the COVID-19 might hit the 10,000 mark by the end of next month. The Director of Public Health Dr Patrick Amoth on Monday said according to the propositioning module, Kenya will likely record a total of …

March 2020 theStar; The family of the first Kenyan to die of Covid-19 now says he passed screening checks at the airports and didn’t have any symptoms such as coughing, sneezing or fever. The family of the late Eng. Maurice Barasa Namiinda in a statement on Sunday said he was …

March 2020 theGuardian; There are now more than 2,400 confirmed cases of Covid-19 across Africa and growing warnings that the pandemic will cause major challenges for the continent’s under-resourced health services. World Health Organization officials have said the statistics are likely to significantly underestimate the true number of cases. There have …

March 2020 theStar; President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered a curfew in Kenya from 7pm to 5am, effective Friday. “This will be in effect to limit the spread of the (corona)virus,” he said on Wednesday. There had earlier been speculation of a lockdown in Kenya, however, goverenment spokesman Cyrus Oguna dismissed …