Universal Health 2030 Solving Complex Health System Problems
June 2019 Businessdaily; While Kenya is often thought of as a haven for wildlife and stunning natural landscapes, the quiet stability of the country has seen it become one of the most developed nations in Africa with the capital, Nairobi, established as a significant business hub in the eastern region …
Read More »World not delivering quality maternal health care to poorest mothers – UNICEF
June 2019 UNICEF; More than 5 million families across Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean spend over 40 per cent of their non-food household expenses on maternal health services every year, UNICEF said today in a new analysis on maternal health. Nearly two-thirds of these households, or around 3 …
Read More »How kissing can spread gonorrhoea
May 2019 ;Kissing with tongues can spread the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhoea, researchers have warned. Scientists say the STI can be caught through saliva – despite the NHS dismissing kissing as a way of passing it on. And spreading the infection this way may be more common than expected, the Australian researchers …
Read More »KENYA: Report lays bare mess in country’s referral hospitals
May 2019 theStar. Referral hospitals in crisis. They are, suffering from ineffective patient-nurse ratio, lack of critical supplies and equipment, dilapidated structures, unsafe overcrowding and inadequate sanitation, among many other problems. A parliamentary Health committee report says there’s an almost total lack of plant and equipment maintenance and replacement at …
Read More »KENYA:Shalom Hospital on the spot as baby dies after injection
May 2019 Daily nation;A private hospital in Machakos County is on the spot again after a nurse allegedly administered a lethal injection to a seven-month-old baby on Sunday. The baby had been taken to Shalom Hospital after scalding his left hand with hot water. Baby Ethan Muendo passed on barely …
Read More »US Measles Cases Top 700, With Many Illnesses Among Kids
April 2019 NetWork Times;The measles outbreak continues to spread in the United States, surpassing 700 cases this year, federal health officials said on Monday. The virus has now been found in 22 states. More than 500 of the 704 cases recorded as of last Friday were in people who had …
Read More »When It’s Time For A Mammogram, Should You Ask For 3D?
April 2019. ;When women get a mammogram they may be offered one of two types. The older type of mammogram takes a single straightforward X-ray image of the breast. The newer 3D takes pictures from many angles. Now, more evidence shows that 3D mammography offers a more thorough picture of …
Read More »KENYA:NHIF may lose authority to review, pay hospital claims
April 2019 Daily Nation; The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) may not review and pay claims to hospitals if the findings of the new reforms aimed at delivering Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2022 are tabled in June, the Sunday Nationhas learnt. This follows complaints that most corruption cases rise …
Read More »KENYA: Pharma lobby bans gifting of medics
April 2019 Business Daily; Drug makers that are members of the Kenya Association of Pharmaceutical Industry (Kapi) will not be allowed to give gifts or other forms of inducement to health practitioners in a bid to stem cases where medics only prescribe or dispense medicines from certain manufacturers. This follows …
Read More »KENYA:7,900 clinics operating illegally in Nairobi, committee reports
April 2019 Daily Nation;At least 7,900 health facilities in Nairobi County are not registered or licensed and are therefore operating illegally, a report has revealed. The report by the Nairobi County Assembly’s Health Services committee, tabled before the House on Wednesday, revealed that out of the 9,043 health facilities across …
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