Tag Archives: KNH

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 …

August 2017 Dailynation; The waiting time for treatment for cancer patients is expected to shrink from three to one month, thanks to new machines launched by the President at Kenyatta National Hospital on Thursday. They include a Bhabhatron II cancer therapy machine and a digital radiotherapy simulator and are designed …

August 2017 Businessdaily; President Uhuru Kenyatta has appealed to nurses to resume work and give the new government a chance for dialogue to end the 82-day-old strike. Mr Kenyatta was speaking during the launch of cancer equipment at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) on Thursday. More than 25,000 nurses went on …

July 2017 BusinessDaily; Kenyans with heart ailments can now get specialised treatment in 11 major hospitals with help from the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). The treatments, including basic heart procedures like unblocking clogged blood vessels for proper blood flow (angioplasty), surgery for pacemakers and valves as well as diagnostic …

May 2017 DailyNation; Patients escaped from Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi in the 2015-2016 financial year without paying a total of Sh47.5 million. A report by Auditor-General Edward Ouko tabled in the National Assembly says the hospital’s management failed to explain how it intended to recover the loss. Auditors said …

April 2017 DailyNation; Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) and the state health insurer are in talks to raise kidney transplant benefits above Sh500,000 to recover additional treatment costs. The referral hospital talks with the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) comes as the cost of the transplants remains unchanged for nearly seven …

April 2017 BusinessDaily; The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) payouts for dialysis is the single largest claims, highlighting the growing cases of kidney ailments among Kenyans. Official records indicate that the State-owned insurer paid hospitals Sh839.9 million in the six months to December, up from Sh139.8 million in a similar …

March 2017 DailyNation; Six years ago, a retired engineer drowned in his own body fluids. His kidneys had failed due to hypertension and, over time, and with money hard to come by, he could not afford care in private hospitals. The only public centre for dialysis, Kenyatta National Hospital, was …

January 2017 BusinessDaily; A one-and-a-half-month long doctors’ strike has left Kenya’s public health system seriously ill and in need of urgent treatment. The strike has caused loss of lives and denied millions of poor Kenyans who rely on public hospitals access to medical services. The situation has more recently reached …

October 2016 EastAfrican; Sixteen-year-old Sumeiya Abdi has not been in school since 2013. She is among the patients hooked onto the 20 dialysis machines at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi — the country’s chief referral and teaching institution — to help them manage acute and chronic kidney disease. Acute …