Universal Health 2030 Solving Complex Health System Problems
July 2021 theStandard; All public health facilities in Kakamega County have been given the green light to run independently following the enactment of the County Health Facilities Improvement Fund Act, 2020. The new law empowers the management of the hospitals to utilise 100 per cent of monies generated in improving services offered …
Read More »Doctors in Rwanda can now prescribe medicinal cannabis to patients
July 2021 Business insider ; On Monday, June 28, the Government of Rwanda recognised that cannabis has medicinal value and should be available on prescription. This new step brings the East African nation in line with African countries like Lesotho, Morocco, Uganda and Zimbabwe, where the use of cannabis medicinally …
Read More »Some COVID shots may be linked to rare heart problems in teens: CDC
June 2021 YahooNews; The FDA on Wednesday said it plans to add a warning to Pfizer and Moderna vaccines after a CDC advisory panel said data suggests a “likely association” between the vaccines and rare cases of heart inflammation in adolescents and young adults. Despite the warning, doctors and researchers say they …
Read More »KENYA:State to control doctors, hospital charges in Bill
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 …
Read More »Three dead babies broke doctor’s heart and she killed herself
“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 …
Read More »KENYA :Alarm over gonorrhoea, chlamydia causing infertility – MOH
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 …
Read More »KENYA:Why proposed changes to NHIF Act are timely
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 …
Read More »KENYA:Agency bets on tech to lock out cartels from blood banks
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 …
Read More »KENYA:Penda Health set to spend Sh115 million on expansion
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 …
Read More »Now proven against coronavirus, mRNA can do so much more
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 …
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