Dr. Oluga delivered this speech at a UHC conference in 2019. It remains relevant today. ‘Good Morning, Thank you for the invite and the honour to speak to you. I’m deeply humbled. Kenya has undergone several challenges as pertains HRH. Several strikes are still fresh in our minds. The National Government, Counties, Mission hospitals and …
The Young vs The Old Doctor: Will Healthcare’s Traditions Be Shaken?
By Tracy Liloe Let’s face it, the country has doubts on the ethics, competencies and attitudes of a section of health workers and by extension hospitals. Gory stories and videos, some uninformed, have washed social media platforms. The general perception of the public has thus morphed from misdiagnosis and negligence to ‘cyber bullying’ of health …
By: Dr. Githinji Gitahi, GCEO, Amref Health Africa Founded in 1957 by Sir Michael Wood, Archibald McIndoe and Tom Rees as the Flying Doctors of East Africa, Amref Health Africa has evolved from a focus of bringing surgical skills to mission hospitals in the bush into Africa’s largest indigenous health development organisation with offices in …
by Tracy Liloe Over the weekend I attended a doctors’ funeral service accompanying a doctor friend of mine. Let us for once suspend the mourning and remind ourselves that doctors also die. They die painful and sometimes needless deaths as we all like to refer to majority of deaths in Kenya. The funeral was somber …
MONEY OR MALARIA: AFRICA WILL HAVE TO CHOOSE WHAT TO SAVE By Kalunde Kilonzo Majority of the African countries hardest hit by malaria do not have enough money to buy treated mosquito nets and mosquito insecticides—and other interventions to keep the disease at bay—over the next three years. Yet, these countries account for nearly 90 …
WHAT KENYA’S HEALTH SYSTEM NEEDS By Dr Flavio Mugendi And it is not the Cubans! The current national debate is full of corruption rhetoric punctuated by the brief mention of the arrival of Cuban Doctors. It is no longer strange news that the Government of Kenya is importing Cuban Doctors to fill in gaps in …
You have probably contributed a thousand shillings or maybe more for a colleague, a friend, a loved one or someone unknown to you due to a medical bill. You have been moved multiple times by the many people who have to seek public support to travel to India for medical attention. What happened to giving …
What would you do to restore functionality in Africa’s Healthcare systems? What don’t we get right in our various in-country healthcare systems within Africa? Africa suffers the weakest health systems in the world; and Africa also suffers the world’s highest disease burden, standing upwards of 25%. The continent employs only 2% of the total World …