YOUTH’S SILENT MENTAL HEALTH AGONY: A PARTNERSHIP TAKES ON ISOLATION AND LONELINESS
During the day, *Kevin looks like many young men his age. He laughs easily with friends, shows up when needed and carries himself with quiet...
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MERU HEALTH WORKERS PRAISE GOVERNOR FOR TACKLING SECTOR CHALLENGES
By Gerald Mutethia Health workers in Meru County are commending Governor Mutuma M’ethingia for improving relations between the county administration and medical staff, saying long-standing...
CLINICAL OFFICERS ISSUE 21-DAY ULTIMATUM TO GOVERNMENT
The Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO) has issued a 21-day nationwide strike notice, accusing the Ministry of Health and the Council of Governors (CoG)...
OP-ED : WHY THE PROPOSED U.S. – KENYA HEALTHCARE DEAL IS A TRAP
Health Cabinet Secretary Hon. Aden Duale with U.S. Chargé d’Affaires to Kenya, H.E. Susan M. Burns, during a meeting in Nairobi on ,3rd October, discussing...
THE PIG, THE WORM, AND THE HIDDEN CAUSE OF EPILEPSY
From pork ribs, pork chemsha, and pork choma, the distance between your plate and your brain could be just two to eight metres the length...
KNH WORLD-RECORD GIGANTOMASTIA SURGERY GIVES TEEN A NEW LEASE ON LIFE
For 18 months, Lydia Musivi, 17, carried a burden that went far beyond the physical. Rapid and excessive breast growth, a rare condition known as...
BENEATH THE SURFACE: NAIROBI’S TOXIC RIVER AND THE RACE TO RECLAIM IT
Beneath the glistening water of some parts of the Nairobi River, is a bed of murky water winding through the city’s river meanders. Vendors rinse...
THARAKA NITHI BOLSTERS FIGHT AGAINST MATERNAL AND INFANT MORTALITY
Tharaka Nithi County is intensifying efforts to reduce maternal and infant deaths through a new set of interventions aimed at ensuring that every pregnancy is...
“SHE SAID, ‘BABE, I’M SCARED’: HOW POSTPARTUM HAEMORRHAGE (PPH) STOLE MY WIFE.
When Joseph Wanyonyi speaks about his late wife, Phylis Wanjiru, his voice carries the weight of love, loss, and disbelief. I never imagined I would...
KMPDU HITS BACK AS COG DISMISSES REPORTS ON KIAMBU INFANT DEATHS
The standoff between the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) and the Council of Governors (COG) has deepened following the governors’ dismissal of...