Universal Health 2030 Solving Complex Health System Problems
December 2017 BusinessDaily; A management tussle at St Mary’s Hospital in Nairobi escalated Thursday, resulting in a few hours of disruption and suspension of services in parts of the facility. Auctioneers and policemen acting on a court order procured by the Assumption Sisters of Nairobi stormed the hospital Thursday morning and …
Read More »KENYA:Kenya bans ‘shisha’ water-pipe tobacco smoking
December 2017 BusinessDaily; Kenya has banned with immediate effect the smoking of water-pipe tobacco, commonly known as shisha. The country becomes the third in the region, after Tanzania and Rwanda, to impose a ban on shisha smoking in a span of less than two years. Other countries with similar practices …
Read More »KENYA:Ambulance hailing firm tests app in city
December 2017 BusinessDaily; A tech start-up has launched an online ambulance service that operates like a taxi covering Nairobi, a year after angel investors injected Sh10 million to fund its establishment. Flare founders Caitlin Dolkart and Maria Rabinovich say their web-based service ‘Rescue’ has enrolled 10,000 users mostly drawn from …
Read More »KENYA:Kenyan health sector firms make deals worth billions
December 2017 BusinessDaily; Kenyan companies in the health sector have this year made a number of deals worth billions of shillings, but some of the deals are expected to be concluded in the New Year. Below are some of the deals. MP Shah Hospital and HCG sign cancer care deal MP …
Read More »KENYA:Patients leave Kenyatta hospital holding Sh5 billion unpaid bill
December 2017 standardmedia; Patients have escaped from Kenyatta National Hospital without paying Sh5.4 billion. The growing debt at the national referral institution continues to threaten service delivery, further raising queries about the effectiveness of services by the hospital. Hospital CEO Lily Koros explained that the hospital has accumulated the debt from …
Read More »KENYA:Crisis: Tharaka-Nithi public hospitals run out of medicine
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 …
Read More »KENYA:Hi-tech cancer scanner to ease costs in Nairobi beginning April
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 …
Read More »KENYA:Why Outer Ring road’s design is causing challenges ahead of commissioning
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 …
Read More »RWANDA:Rwanda bans shisha smoking following Tanzania’s lead
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 …
Read More »KENYA:NTSA denies responsibility for increased road fatalities
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.’ …
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