EAST AFRICAN NEWS

June 2021 Businessdaily; Kenya will start controlling medical bills and doctors’ fees if Parliament adopts a proposed law that aims to curb the surge in hospital expenses. Hospital charges will be determined and capped by an 11-member council that includes the Principal Secretary for Health, the Attorney General and an …

“Work is killing me.” That’s what paediatrician Lydia Wahura Kanyoro said in one of her Facebook posts in the past year. So difficult were working conditions, she posted, that several times she “had to close people’s abdomen’s under torchlight..or had to let three babies die in one afternoon because I …

June 2021 the Star; Sexually transmitted infections that were running riot in Kenya in the 1980s and 1990s have come roaring back, the Ministry of Health says. Of particular concern for women are gonorrhoea and chlamydia, little talked about venereal diseases that quietly destroy a young woman’s reproductive tract and …

June 2021 Edwin Barasa; The proposed amendments to the NHIF Act have elicited varying reactions with some stakeholders, notably the Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu) and the Association of Kenya Insurers (AKI), voicing their opposition. However, the proposed amendments are timely and, if well implemented, will offer immense benefits …

June 2021 Businessdaily; Kenya requires between 500,000 to one million units of blood a year, yet collects less than a quarter of that volume. Amid such an acute shortage, cartels engaged in illegal sale of blood have continued to make a kill. The illegal blood business is blamed for shortage …

June 2021 Businessdaily;Private medical services provider Penda Health plans to invest about Sh115 million in expansion to run until next year as it plans to cut staff under support services. The health centre will add three branches this year and five more next year on the Coast, eastern, central and …

June 2021 CNN; When the final Phase 3 data came out last November showing the mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna were more than 90% effective, Dr. Anthony Fauci had no words. He texted smiley face emojis to a journalist seeking his reaction.This astonishing efficacy has held up in …

Medical researchers are investigating a mystery variant of coronavirus that could be specific to Kenya, the Health ministry reported yesterday. The strain discovered on May 17 from routine samples collected in Kisumu, is said to have characteristics of both Indian (B.1.617) and the UK (B.1.1.7) variants. The variant is, however, …

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 …