EAST AFRICAN NEWS

May 2020 TheStar; About 20,000 jobs are at risk in the healthcare sector due to financial distress in addition to pay cuts being implemented, a report by the Kenya Private Sector Alliance shows. There have been big losses in health-related SMEs, including smaller hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres. The report …

May 2020 BusinessDaily; Twenty Kenyan healthcare workers have tested positive for the coronavirus in the past two weeks, bringing the total number of the key frontline personnel in the country’s Covid-19 fight to 54 or 3.3 percent of the 1,618 confirmed cases to date. Health director-general Patrick Amoth, however, said …

May 2020 DailyNation; 72 more people have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing total confirmed cases in Kenya to 1,286, Health Chief Administrative Secretary Mercy Mwangangi has said in the latest update. These were from 2,711 samples tested. Of the new cases, 44 are male while 28 are female. Their ages …

May 2020 theStar; Kenya has lost 13 people following a cholera outbreak, Health CS Mutahi Kagwe has said. The deaths are recorded in Marsabit (12), and Turkana (1). Kagwe on Thursday said the outbreak is localised in Marsabit and Turkana counties, adding that 70% of those affected are below 10 …

May 2020 BusinessDaily; Dr Kristina Sule is a cosmetic gynaecologist. It’s a relatively new branch of medicine that involves surgical and non-surgical enhancement and corrections of female genital structures. “As I did hundreds of Cesarean deliveries during my Master’s degree internship, I realised that I was keen on symmetry and …

May 2020 DailyNation; As the Covid-19 pandemic rages, many private hospitals are grappling with a different side-effect – financial problems. The growing costs and shrinking revenues are now forcing hospitals to ask their employees to take a pay cut. The issue has caused a push and pull between the health …

May 2020 DailyNation; The number of coronavirus cases in Kenya has risen to 887 after 57 people tested positive in the last 24 hours, the highest tally since the first case was reported in the country in March. The cases comprise 23 females and 34 males, all aged between two …

May 2020 DailyNation; Surgeons will have to create time to clear the backlog of patients in need of elective surgeries, as the number keeps growing everyday. During the onset of the coronavirus in the country, elective surgeries across all government hospitals were suspended in March, forcing thousands of Kenyans in …

May 2020 DailyNation; Health workers’ quest for better allowances hangs in the balance after county governments were told to reorganise their budgets to raise Sh2.356 billion required to implement the welfare and insurance package This comes after Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani, in a letter to Salaries and Remuneration Commission …

May 2020 YahooBusiness; A US pharmaceutical firm has signed agreements with drug makers in South Asia to expand supply of the drug remdesivir for treating Covid-19. The agreement between Gilead and five generic pharmaceutical companies in India and Pakistan will help make the medicine for 127 countries. Remdesivir cut the …