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As conflict, climate disasters, and displacement intensify across Kenya and the African continent, patients living with chronic diseases are increasingly being left unattended.
MPs have called for urgent reforms to Kenya’s cancer care system, warning that reduced funding under SHA and late diagnoses are worsening access, costs and patient outcomes.
Importation of low quality fuel into the country is likely to result in increased hospitalisation and health complications because of high sulphur content, health experts have warned.
Shocking revelations have emerged of blood and other medical samples are illegally extracted and exported abroad for scientific use.
Kenya faces a persistent blood shortage that leaves thousands of patients at risk every year, with Nairobi, the country’s busiest health hub collecting only 60 percent of its annual target.
The Kenya Medical Association has raised concerns over the rising trend of leaders staging photography sessions, live broadcasts, and media events within healthcare facilities.
WHO Director-General Tedros has sought to calm global fears over the hantavirus outbreak linked to the MV Hondius, insisting the public health risk remains low.
WHO’s pandemic agreement remains stalled in Geneva, as African leaders, drawing hard lessons from the HIV and Covid-19 crises, reject a system that treats their genetic data as a free commodity.
For decades, billions of dollars from donors have sustained health systems that African governments have struggled to finance independently.
Patients with chronic conditions want the Ministry of Health to make systems work and clarify enhanced services offered under the newly gazetted benefit package.
Patients requiring emergency and specialised treatment suffer from unavailable beds, missing equipment, lengthy transfers and out-of-pocket costs.
Teen mothers in Kenya face stigma, poverty and school dropout as adolescent pregnancies continue rising across the country.
Fuel protests and the matatu strike disrupted healthcare services nationwide, leaving patients stranded, delaying treatment and affecting hospital operations.
A Kenyan researcher has won a Sh446 million award for advancing the early detection of oesophageal cancer, a disease that continues to claim thousands of lives in the country every year.
Tuberculosis screening in Kakamega was delayed after a matatu strike, amid fears chang’aa drinkers may have spread the disease within the community.
Health CS Aden Duale says over 42,000 travellers screened at borders and airports.
A decade-long goitre battle ended after successful high-risk surgery with remote digital support. Makueni hospitals use telemedicine to strengthen complex maternal healthcare procedures.
Africa CDC has raised alarm over Ebola spread in the region, placing Kenya on a high-risk list.
More than 220 people have died in a suspected Ebola outbreak, with over 900 suspected cases reported.
Porous Kenya–Uganda borders are raising Ebola spillover fears as WHO warns of a rapidly spreading Bundibugyo outbreak in Uganda and the DRC.
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