Universal Health 2030 Solving Complex Health System Problems
March 2019 Business Daily; Health Principal Secretary Susan Mochache said that KNH is owed Sh5.6 billion from July 2003 to February 2019 while Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) is struggling with unpaid bills of Sh1 billion. The unpaid bills come as the two referral hospitals battle to raise funds …
Read More »KENYA:No pay increase for nurses as talks end
March 2019 Daily nation; The month-long conciliation talks between nurses and their employers have not borne any fruit, the Nation has learnt. After the health workers went on strike, the Council of Governors moved to court, which ordered the parties to attend conciliation meetings initiated by Labour Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yattani and …
Read More »KENYA:KNH in cash crunch over Sh1 billion debt
January 2019 BusinessDaily; Kenyatta National Hospital is in deep financial trouble after the National Hospital Insurance Fund failed to pay Sh800 million it owes the giant medical institution. The hospital operations are already in peril, putting the lives of thousands of patients, who depend on the facility, at risk with …
Read More »KENYA:First and successful brain surgery at Kitui County Referral Hospital
August The standard;Doctors have conducted the first brain surgery at Kitui County Referral Hospital. The operation was done on 52-year-old Hillary Muteti Muthui who had severe head injury. He slipped and fell at his Kathuma, Mutulu village home in Kitui West a week ago. The consultant neurosurgeon from Kenyatta National …
Read More »KENYA:KNH to raise patient fees for next 5 years
July 2018 Business Daily;Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) has announced plans to increase patient charges annually for five years as the referral facility seeks to raise billions of shillings for facilities upgrade. The hospital revealed the annual adjustments during the launch of its five-year strategic plan ending 2023, which will see …
Read More »KENYA:At KNH in Nairobi, another surgery goes wrong
March 2018 Dailynation; Kenyatta National Hospital is on the spot yet again following claims of a botched caesarean section. Susan Nekesa says she walked into Kenya’s top referral hospital in labour on January 25 and delivered twin girls the following day. SWOLLEN However, hours after the surgery, Nekesa’s stomach became …
Read More »KENYA:Committee absolves doctors of blame in KNH surgery mix-up
March 2017 Dailynation; A committee constituted by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists’ Board has absolved two doctors from wrongdoing in the Kenyatta National Hospital surgery mix-up. ABSOLVED The committee said that the competence of Dr Hanson Ng’ang’a Kamau, who undertook the surgery assisted by Dr Mose Moraa, could not …
Read More »KENYA:Take responsibility for surgery mix-up, nurses tell KNH doctors
March 2018 Dailynation; The National Nurses Association of Kenya has asked doctors at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) to stop blaming nurses for the surgery conducted on the wrong patient. They asked doctors to take responsibility. BLAME The nurses’ association said shifting the blame to nurses was an irresponsible way …
Read More »KENYA:Horror at KNH as doctors open skull of wrong patient
March 2017 Dailynation; A neurosurgeon has been suspended for opening up the head of the wrong patient in one of the worst cases of medical malpractice to become public at Kenyatta National Hospital. Two men had been wheeled into KNH unconscious last Sunday. One needed head surgery to remove a …
Read More »KENYA:KNH doctors reattach teenager’s hand that was stored in cool box for 10 hours
February 2018 Standardmedia; Doctors at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) have successfully reattached the severed hand of 17-year-old Joseph Thairu from Kiambaa, Kiambu County. Thairu’s arm was accidentally cut off while cleaning a chaff cutter. He had just finished feeding their cows. The highly delicate procedure lasted seven hours. It involved a multidisciplinary medical …
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