[ad_1] Economy The good, bad of Social Health Insurance Bill Tuesday October 03 2023 The National Hospital Insurance Fund building in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTE | NMG The Social Health Insurance Bill (SHI) outlines the plan to reform Kenya’s health financing. The Bill seeks to fix the problems that have plagued the National…
[ad_1] Companies Nairobi Hospital makes Sh564m loss Tuesday October 03 2023 The Nairobi Hospital entrance. FILE PHOTO | NMG Nairobi Hospital has more than tripled its investments in government paper to Sh1.19 billion after purchasing an infrastructure bond as it slid into loss-making following a drop in patient numbers. The hospital disclosed in the latest…
[ad_1] The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended a new vaccine, R21/Matrix-M, for the prevention of malaria in children. The global health body in a press statement released on Monday said the recommendation follows advice from its Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunisation and the Malaria Policy Advisory Group. The new vaccine, R21/Matrix-M vaccine…
[ad_1] In many developing countries, poorer people feel the effects of climate change more than those with money. Khehla Mahlangu is one of them. Mahlangu lives in a Secunda township in Mpumalanga, where the air is so dirty, many people struggle to breathe. As air temperatures rise because of global warming, weather patterns change and…
[ad_1] Betta Edu, minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation, has flagged off the verification of names on the national social register in Lagos suburbs. Speaking on Monday after a door-to-door verification of names on the register, Edu said the exercise has commenced across the country and would last for three weeks. The national social…
[ad_1] The federal capital territory authority (FCTA) says Olorunfemi Greatness, a victim of a “one chance” robbery, was already dead when she was brought to the Maitama hospital in Abuja. “One chance” is a type of robbery in which unsuspecting passengers are lured into commercial vehicles whose occupants are robbers, who attack and strip the…
[ad_1] In a new trial in rural India, giving people with tuberculosis (TB) simple food packages and vitamin pills helped them to gain weight while on treatment — and made their chance of dying from the disease drop by 60%. Eating healthy food often helped three-quarters of patients being able to go back to work…
[ad_1] The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it approved R21/Matrix-M, a malaria vaccine, developed by scientists at Oxford University, for the prevention of the disease in children. In a statement on Monday, WHO said the recommendation follows advice from its strategic advisory group of experts on immunisation (SAGE) and the malaria policy advisory group (MPAG),…
[ad_1] Between March and September 2019 Tshwane health workers tried to vaccinate 22 000 grade four girls with two shots of an anti cervical cancer vaccine. But they missed their target and only got to 15 000. Now things have worsened. Research shows that parents are increasingly reluctant to sign consent forms for their daughters…
[ad_1] The Centre for Social Justice, Equity, and Transparency (CESJET) has commended Tajudeen Abbas, speaker of the house of representatives, for creating new standing committees. In a statement issued on Monday, Isaac Ikpa, executive secretary of CESJET, said the new committees would ensure “proactive oversight” of ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs). Ikpa specifically said one…
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