Health

The Govt To Review Covid 19 Measures
Health Cabinet Secretary, Mutahi Kagwe says, the government is planning to review Covid 19 containment measures due to the continued low positivity rate recorde...

Health CS Urges Health Workers To Adopt Managerial Skills
Health Cabinet secretary Mutahi Kagwe now says the medics should adapt managerial skills in the workforce saying, it will benefit the health sector.Speaking in...

The Govt Launches Covid 19 Mass Vaccination Campaign
The government of Kenya has launched a 10-day mass Covid 19 vaccination campaign targeting at least 10 million people.Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe spea...

Pharmacy And Poisons Board Crackdown On Illegal Pharmacies
The Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PBB) has intensified a three-day crackdown on illicit drugs and unlicensed pharmacies in the Coast region.Speaking to the media...

Lake Victory Initiative Aids Persons With HIV In Migori County
Persons With HIV from six selected sub-counties in Migori county, are set to benefit from foodstuffs for the next three months from the Lake Victory Initiative...

KMPDU Calls Off Health Workers Strike In Mombasa
The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU), has called off the strike which was supposed to take effect as of yesterday midnight fo...

WHO Warns Countries Against Referring to Omicron as 'Mild'
World Health Organisation has warned countries referring to the Omicron variant as mild because of the rate at which it is spreading and killing people across t...

Medics Raise Alarm Over High Covid 19 Positivity Rate in Siaya
Medics in Siaya County, have raised an alarm over the increasing positivity rate of Covid 19 infections, which is being driven by the Omicron variant.According...

No Vaccination Certificate, No Service
Government spokesperson Cyrus Oguna has said, you will not be able to access government services without a Covid-19 certificate.Speaking yesterday during a sens...

Kenya Records 1,372 New COVID-19 Cases, Positivity Rate at 24.4pc
Kenya Records 1,372 New COVID-19 Cases, Positivity Rate at 24.4pcThe Ministry of Health yesterday announced that 1,372 people tested positive for COVID-19 from...

COVID-19'S Omicron Variant Now in Kenya
Ministry of Health has confirmed cases of the covid 19's Omicron variant, this after World Health Organisation has announced that the new coronavirus variant Om...

KPA to construct classrooms for Coast schools
The Kenya Ports Authority has handed over a sixty-bed capacity dormitory block to Shimo la Tewa High School to ease the student population, this is among the 50...

Kenya Receives Additional AstraZeneca covid 19 vaccine
Kenya has received 1,462,400 doses of AstraZeneca to boost the ongoing accelerated Covid-19 vaccination exercise in the country.The latest shipment brought the...

CS Kagwe To Hold Crisis Meeting On COVID-19 Containment
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has called a crisis meeting to deliberate on ways to contain the spread of COVID-19.The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday a...

KEMSA Urged To Ensure Accountability
Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) has received calls for urgent structural and institutional reforms.The new reforms in the institution have been backed...

The Healthiest Way to Sweat Out a Pandemic
A supermarket worker was spat at by a customer attempting to stockpile Pot Noodles while another was told: "I hope you get the virus and die", as panic-buying b...

What to Do About a Light Case of COVID-19
A supermarket worker was spat at by a customer attempting to stockpile Pot Noodles while another was told: "I hope you get the virus and die", as panic-buying b...

Ibuprofen should not be used for managing symptoms, say doctors and scientists
A supermarket worker was spat at by a customer attempting to stockpile Pot Noodles while another was told: "I hope you get the virus and die", as panic-buying b...

Fighting the infodemic through accelerated research in emergency contexts
A supermarket worker was spat at by a customer attempting to stockpile Pot Noodles while another was told: "I hope you get the virus and die", as panic-buying b...

Associations of fat and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality
A supermarket worker was spat at by a customer attempting to stockpile Pot Noodles while another was told: "I hope you get the virus and die", as panic-buying b...