Category: Health
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The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi (AKUH, N) has acquired the Vitek MS Prime, a technology that can identify disease-causing organisms in just 30 minutes, down from the previous 8 to 18 hours. This advanced system uses MALDI-TOF technology to rapidly detect a wide range of microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi, yeast, and other hard-to-identify pathogens…
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An AI-generated image of the proposed TikTok Community Hospital. As Kenyans on TikTok continue doing exploits and dominating conversations offline, a new venture is in the offing; a TikTok-sponsored community hospital purely constructed through billions raised on the video-sharing platform. The conversation, which started off as an idle whisper, soon caught fire and saw notable…
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Image: Some of the equipment handed over to the hospital by the Mozzart team. What if we take matters into our own hands? What if we don’t rely on the government to ‘lead’us into misery and we do things on our own? These are among the questions that the Gen Z ‘s have been able…
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One of the most emotive things for bereaved families, especially the poor, is the detention of the bodies of their loved ones due to hospital bills. In many cases, the patients will have succumbed after draining their families’ resources, and they cannot bury them until money is found somehow to clear the pending hospital bills.…
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Kenya has set up an intersectoral Technical Working Group to spearhead reforms in health workforce training and ensure alignment with the country’s evolving healthcare needs. The team has been tasked with addressing pressing challenges, including gaps in professional competencies, misalignment between population health priorities and existing training programs, and the rise of unrecognized courses within…
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Kenya and the World Health Organization (WHO) have reviewed progress on the establishment of the WHO Africa Regional Emergency Operations and Logistics Hub and the Eastern Africa Regional Coordinating Centre. The meeting was led by the Principal Secretary for Public Health and Professional Standards, Mary Muthoni, together with the WHO team. Discussions focused on the…
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Health Cabinet Secretary Hon. Aden Duale today convened a high-level consultative forum with private healthcare providers and senior officials of the Social Health Authority (SHA) to deliberate on strategies for enhancing service delivery under the Taifa Care Model. The meeting focused on sustaining service continuity during the early rollout of the Social Health Insurance (SHI)…
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Bungoma Governor Kenneth Lusaka has finally handed over promotion letters to 305 healthcare workers, marking what he termed a “historic milestone” in improving health services across the county. The promotions cut across all cadres , including 117 nurses, 36 clinical officers, 18 lab officers, 17 public health officers, 11 pharmaceutical technologists, and other specialists. Governor…
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Got it ✅ — here’s a fully polished, Yoast SEO–ready rewrite of the Pritty Vishy story, with shorter sentences, more transition words, active voice, and internal/external links embedded naturally. Nairobi, Kenya – October 1, 2025 – Popular Kenyan content creator Pritty Vishy has hit back at speculation surrounding her cosmetic surgery, insisting she paid for…
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Millions of people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are set to benefit from a groundbreaking HIV prevention drug that will soon be available at a fraction of its original cost. On 24 September 2025 in New York, global health leaders announced that lenacapavir, a powerful injectable used for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), will be made…