Author: Nasibo Kabale

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Nasibo Kabale

In jail for having a mental health breakdown

It was a cold July morning in 2021 when Waweru Muthumbi found himself at the gates of Mathari National Hospital, seeking help for his mental health. After a failed attempt at suicide, Muthumbi was checking himself at Mathari. It had taken Muthumbi all his fortitude to decide to seek help and he hailed an Uber and headed to Mathari. This is where he sought refuge hoping to get treatment for the nagging feeling of no longer wanting to be alive. At that point, he had been battling this awful mood for close to a decade. Mathari: Kenya’s only referral mental health hospital It was his…

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Mathare River Cleaning
Climate
Nasibo Kabale

Travelling with trash

A pile of various coloured trash is laid out almost every day outside the gates of estates in major cities, waiting for what would be their final destination. Almost always, the rumble of dirt trucks is preceded by the foul smell, and often more than two young men hang dangerously on the sides before they hop out, pick trash up, and methodically swing it up in the air and into the trucks where they land. Trash bags bursting at the seams with the most basic home essentials such as milk cartons, leftover food, bottles, torn clothes or old electronics are sent off to their trash

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UHC Kenya
HealthNews
Nasibo Kabale

Why Kenya could miss universal healthcare dream

Financial shifts are likely to lead to the loss of health gains that occurred while receiving substantial external financial support, the International Commission of Jurists – Kenyan Section (ICJ Kenya) has warned. In a report, the ICJ Kenya revealed that the country’s reliance on donor funding and inadequate health financing could see Kenya fail to actualize the UHC dream by 2030.  ICJ states that dependency on key sub-sectors of its health system, particularly TB, HIV, and immunizations, which have a concentrated donor landscape of nearly 90 percent of all external aid, will lead to a funding gap for Kenya to fill when external resources decline. …

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Cholera vaccinantion
HealthNews
Nasibo Kabale

Kenya to roll out vaccines after 194 die of cholera

Kenya is battling a cholera outbreak that has claimed 194 lives in less than a year prompting the government to roll out emergency vaccination across eight counties. After prolonged drought, continuing rains are spreading waterborne diseases such as cholera with the country expecting torrential el nino rains later this year that is bound to aggravate the health concerns. The Ministry of Health has announced an Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) programme that will commence on Thursday to Saturday 12th August following a reported 11,872 cases and 194 deaths with some active cases from October last year to July 2023. The program targets people over the age…

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