EAST AFRICAN NEWS

Chinese medical assistance is helping save the lives of many Ethiopians, an Ethiopian official said on Monday.Speaking to Xinhua, Jibril Abas, CEO of Trunesh Beijing Hospital, said the medical facility located in the southern outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa has been able to give lifesaving medical treatment because of Chinese …

August 2020 DailyNation; The Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) has been left holding on to medical supplies worth Sh6 billion that it cannot move because they were bought at inflated prices in the guise of fighting Covid-19. The agency now claims that it is broke and is asking the government …

August 2020 DailyNation; Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has transferred 60 officials from Afya House as he attempts to clean up the beleaguered ministry that is on the spot over misuse of coronavirus funds. Of these, 21 have been redeployed within the Health ministry while the remaining 39 have been …

August 2020 TheStar ; Agriculture Principal Secretary Hamadi Boga, who is also a senior microbiologist, has written an open letter to Kenyans about his successful battle against Covid-19. “Dear Family, Friends, Neighbors, fellow Kenyans. Here I am. Still alive. I am doing okay, largely. I have finished self-isolating at home …

August 2020 TheStar ;Doctors working in Nairobi County have issued a seven-day notice for a strike to begin on August 21.  In the notice to the Nairobi Metropolitan Services, Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union lists five grievances.  They are demanding comprehensive National Hospital Insurance Fund covers, saying their …

August 2020 CapitalFm; The Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) board on Friday suspended three top officials including the agency’s Chief Executive Officer Jonah Manjari to pave way for a probe on COVID-19 supplies procurement. Manjari, Eliud Muriithi (Commercial Director) and Charles Juma (Procurement Director) are facing an investigation by the …

August 2020 BusinessDaily ; Rural private hospital operators want the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to release Sh5.7 billion in accumulated claims which they say have crippled operations. Rural Private Hospitals Association of Kenya (Rupha) said it had submitted the claims through the national insurer’s online system over a year …

August 2020 Xinhua; Ethiopia’s confirmed COVID-19 cases reached 20,336 after 459 new COVID-19 positive cases were confirmed on Wednesday, the Ethiopian Ministry of Health said. The Ethiopian Ministry of Health in a statement issued on Wednesday revealed that from a total of 7,319 medical tests that were conducted within the …

August 2020 DailyNation; Government employees and front-line health workers continue to remain exposed during the Covid-19 pandemic period following the expiry of their medical, life and last-expense insurance covers. The contracts for the scheme that caters for civil servants and the National Police Service expired on March 31, but the …

August 2020 BusinessDaily ; The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) will only provide cover for Covid-19 patients admitted to public hospitals, the insurer has said, a decision that is likely to rattle many members amid rising infections. Peter Kamunyo, the CEO of NHIF, said the fund will only pay rebates …