Kenya: New Kibera Clinic Increases Access to Free Medical Care
Source: Africa Headlines
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-17 01:41:19 -0700 | health-news
Nairobi The international humanitarian medical organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) today inaugurates a new clinic in Kibera South. The centre offers comprehensive basic healthcare and maternity services integrated with the management of chronic diseases like HIV, targeting one of...
State urged to probe patients escape from Mathari
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-16 03:18:18 -0700 | health-news
The government should investigate the circumstances that led to the Sunday's escape of mentally ill patients from Mathari Hospital, Nairobi, a lobby group has demanded. Read ( Patients escape from Mathari hospital ) The International Institute for Legislative Affairs (ILA)...
Explain Mathari escape
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-15 11:08:05 -0700 | health-news
Rating In Summary For one, the men would not have broken out if they were satisfied...The escape of 75 patients from Mathari Mental Hospital early this week is quite disturbing. It is good that the majority have returned, either on...
Hypertension can be managed
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-14 10:14:36 -0700 | health-news
Rating In Summary Some people think that when they feel better, they can go off high blood pressure medicine. A decade or so ago, everyone said that hypertension, or high blood pressure, was a disease of the West...When one has...
My family sticks together in sickness and in health
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-14 10:14:19 -0700 | health-news
For instance, whenever our daughter returns home with a bug she has picked from wherever, she passes it on. I am usually the next one in the receiving line, passing it to Tenderoni after it has worsened. Guys, don't give...
Kenyan mentally ill patients escape
Source: BBC
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-13 14:37:34 -0700 | health-news
Kenyan patients escape from Nairobi's Mathari hospital Forty mentally ill patients have escaped from the Mathari Mental Hospital in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, after overpowering guards, police say. A search has been launched for the patients, some of whom are known...
It isn't called beauty sleep for nothing
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-12 08:10:01 -0700 | health-news
Rating In Summary It can lead to comedones, which are the clumps that form when this gunk gets trapped underneath the skin. Nobody wears as much make-up as celebrities, more so the screen ones who get a lot of face...
Conjoined twins lose five-day fight for life
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-11 14:18:45 -0700 | health-news
Rating In Summary The doctors and nurses who took care of my babies were very friendly...May they live long to serve others in our beloved country, she said. They only lived for five days, but they touched the hearts of...
TV star ‘Wanade' dies after battle with cancer
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-10 12:56:43 -0700 | health-news
Television actress Beth Nyambura Mbaya, popularly known by her screen name Wanade, has died. Mrs Mbaya who acted in Mother in Law, died at her sister's home in Nairobi's Kahawa Sukari yesterday after a long struggle with cancer. Nyambura was...
Vaccination Campaign for Meningitis in Upper Nile
Source: Scoop
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-09 16:17:13 -0700 | health-news
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) and South Sudan today announced they will carry out a vaccination campaign to address a meningitis outbreak in the Upper Nile state that has killed three people. The campaign will target 150,000 people...
Twins under intensive care as doctors weigh up surgery
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-09 13:00:13 -0700 | health-news
The conjoined twins from Nakuru are still in intensive care at Kenyatta National Hospital's where doctors are stabilising them. The twins, with two heads and one body, are feeding on their mother's expressed breast milk...Hospital spokesman Simon Ithae said doctors...
Save the Children, drug co. GSK in new partnership
Source: The Boston Globe
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-09 19:35:22 -0700 | health-news
Kenya (AP) One of the world's leading drug makers is partnering with Save the Children to save more lives in developing countries. GlaxoSmithKline and Save the Children announced the move Thursday after the CEOs of the two organizations visited a...
Semi-synthetic artemisinin promises to boost global malaria gains
Source: IRIN
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-09 07:38:08 -0700 | health-news
The UN World Health Organization has accepted the first semi-synthetic version of artemisinin , the key ingredient for malaria treatment globally, for use in the manufacture of drugs, boosting hopes that more people will have access to life-saving medication.
Pre-partum bleeding: What are the causes?
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-07 11:26:30 -0700 | health-news
Ideally, without much intervention, one should be able to carry a pregnancy to term and deliver without complications...As a country, we have been losing too many women (and babies) to complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Pre-partum bleeding refers to vaginal...
Hospital accused of laxity over dead patient
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-05-06 14:27:36 -0700 | health-news
Rating In Summary Hospital management said they were conducting a postmortem examination before commenting on the matter. The family of a female psychiatric patient allegedly killed by a male patient in a ward has accused the Kisumu District Hospital of...
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