Life is like the morning bike ride that I took today. You start from somewhere with what you have, muscles, will and the bicycle. These are your talents and raw materials. You hit the road headed to a destination. This is your vision. You pedal with gusto at the beginning. Your hope levels are very […]
LIFE IS LIKE MY MORNING BICYCLE RIDE Read More »
Once in a while at Murang’a Level 5 Hospital the gynecologist strays into other departments to say hi. On Monday 26th March 2018 I strolled into the Renal – Dialysis Unit. HE Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta officially opened the unit on my birthday in 2016, but it had been functional for some time before that. Meet
MURANG’A HOSPITAL CHRONICLES Volume 1: MURANG’A RENAL UNIT – TOWARDS UHC Read More »
An elegant lady turned on the ignition of her car one Sunday at a church I had visited. Chongingingingingingingi! The car refused to start. I rushed to her help. I diagnosed that the car battery was the problem. Having driven an old car for many years I had learnt everything that could go wrong in
HEALTH WORKFORCE IS KEY TO UHC – CASE FOR A HEALTH SERVICE COMMISSION Read More »
Currently the Kenyan public hospitals that seem to be doing well financially and in service delivery owe their success to a large part to the private wings of the public hospitals that were also known as AMENITY WINGS. Amenity wings within public hospitals were a Kenyan-born solution to many challenges faced by the curative health
HOW KENYAN HOSPITAL AMENITY WINGS WERE KILLED – TOWARDS UHC Read More »
Why did the Committee of ‘Experts’ remove the Health Service Commission from the Kenyan Constitution? Public health is being messed up for private gain. Doctors, & specifically KMA, have been accused of being asleep when the constitution was being made and did not present the HSC. I guess as history continues to unfold the COMMITTEE
THE DRAFT CONSTITUTION OF KENYA 2004 & HEALTH SERVICE COMMISSION Read More »
Day 70 Kenyan Nurses Strike It is ward round time at the new born unit of The Kenyatta National Hospital. The senior consultant walks in and behind her eager students follow in a V-like formation. On day 70 of the nurses strike KNH Newborn has approximately 200 neonates. The ward was designed for a capacity
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On Wednesday 12th 2017 I woke up jovially, had breakfast and dropped my babies to school. I headed straight to KICC where The Kenya Trade Week was in its penultimate day. APSEA had requested KMA to be represented on that day to see how it can get involved in drafting the Kenya Export Policy and
LUCKY ESCAPE FROM CHOLERA, NAIROBI’S PUBLIC HEALTH AND DEVOLUTION OF HEALTH Read More »
What should we gain from a national education system ? What is the problem with the proposed curriculum reform? What is a proposed way forward on the education reform? CurriculumReformsKE I’ve said a lot here about how the government is planning to sedate us with a flawed education system. It has covered all its bases:
WHY WE NEED TO CRITICALLY RETHINK THIS NEW KENYAN #CURRICULUMREFORMSKE Read More »
Dear Kenyans CHOLERA – A FAILURE TO FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION ON DEVOLUTION OF HEALTH Imagine walking into a hotel to learn how to manage diseases of the chest so that you can help Kenyans ONLY to end up with a serious disease of the intestines because of a failed Kenyan Public Health System and politics.
KENYAN DOCTORS ATTENDING A LUNG CONFERENCE GET CHOLERA AT WESTON HOTEL Read More »
My thinking of PPP has just got ticked off by a submission of memoranda in the newspaper where “The Basic Education (Amendment) Bill 2017 seeks to amend the Basic Education Act, No. 14 of 2013 to provide for establishment of Public Private Partnership schools, as a category of schools in Kenya apart from public and
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