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Makueni County Assembly’s health committee decries the lack of a public cemetery and dump site in Emali town

Makueni County Assembly Committee on Health Services has decried the lack of a public cemetery and a dump site in Emali town. While tabling a report before the House on the absence of a cemetery in  Emali, the committee chairperson...

Health workers in Makueni down their tools over unpaid July dues

Operations at the Makueni County Referral hospital were yesterday paralyzed after health workers downed their tools over July unpaid salaries. The workers carrying twigs and chanting slogans marched to the County headquarters offices in Wote town and confronted Governor Kivutha...

Climate change is posing tremendous health threats to humans

  By Caroline Kibii Climate change stopped being a myth. It became a reality. We are feeling the effects. Our health is facing a huge threat. Rarely do we think climate change could turn human health upside down. It is challenging making...

Nakuru lady cries after doctor ‘terminates’ her pregnancy

This is the story of Mary* a 20 year old lady from Nakuru who was allegedly forced to believe she had lost her pregnancy when her baby was still alive. And even she was induced into labor and she...

Catholic Bishops feel shortchanged by government on polio vaccine campaign

Catholic Bishops in the country want the Ministry of Health (MoH) to postpone the forthcoming polio vaccination campaign "until we can assure Kenyans of their safety." The campaign that is to set to start on August 1 targets children...

Coast based health blogger featured on Vaccineswork

  A Kilifi based health blogger Tabitha Mwangi was recently chosen to be part of a research on pneumonia vaccines by a global health organization. Vaccineswork.org is website that  focuses on vaccines that is powered by Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance. Gavi is...

Refund our NHIF money before negotiations, Egerton staff tell government

Egerton University staff want the government to refund all the money that was deducted from their salaries since April this year and directed to the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). Through their Kenya University Staff Union (KUSU) leaders the staff...

Makueni County to spend Sh12M on community health care

  The County Government of Makueni has set aside Sh12M for the Community Health Care Support Program. Executive Committee Member (ECM) for Health Dr. Andrew Mulwa said the money will be used to remunerate the community health workers and procure necessary...

Makueni health docket receives lion’s share in the 2015/2016 budget estimates

  The Department of Health Services in Makueni County received the biggest allocation in the 2015/2016 budget passed by the County Assembly yesterday. The department received a whooping Sh1.92B of the total budgetary allocation of sh6.4B. Out of the total department...

Girl smile initiative giving girls a second chance

  Having traveled the country, Evans Paul realized that there was a gap in the way the girl child was being attended to. In his observations, young girls, both school going and those at home went through difficult times during...

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