Some of these doctors finished shifts and went straight to CBD. Tragic, that
@KeTreasury
has payment of interns on the chopping board because of
#RejectFinanceBill2024
protests. These medics are back to fight for their future careers too.
#MedicsForKenya
Video:
@Luikanguha
I remember asking
@MOH_Kenya
about PPEs during their initial pressers. Many times they said they were in high seas, or being distributed, or we are working on it and other short stories.
#Covid19Millionaires
now unveils the pains I had trying to find out what was happening.
Kenyans, don’t panic when the number of confirmed cases go up. Statistically, it’s EXPECTED. The most important thing is that you do your part on social distancing and maintaining hygiene. WHEN diagnosed, self isolate until the disease runs its course.
#COVID19
no known cure. Don’t expect miracles in hospitals. The best they can do is give oxygen, paracetamol if necessary, and humane care. There are no jabs or tabs. Stay safe, maintain hand hygiene.
It’s a humbling moment, it’s a motivation to keep the focus. It’s a reminder that health does matter. It always has. I am honoured this Madaraka Day, thanks to all of you. Congratulations to all awardees.
As a stakeholder in the health sector, I’ve looked at both
@WilliamsRuto
and
@RailaOdinga
led manifestos and picked out the healthcare elements. Both promise Universal Health Coverage (UHC), here is what I have picked from both presidential candidates. THREAD 1/12
The India variant is lurking in Kisumu, medics there are already raising alarm that the hospitals are struggling with an increase in Covid19 cases. MoH says KE will experience a 4th wave in June, but same Govt still wants to hold Madaraka Day celebrations in the lakeside city..🤷🏾♀️
Mr. President
@StateHouseKenya
what will be happening within these 21 days? I did not hear plans of rigorous contact tracing, mass testing, isolation & case management. What will be the criteria to lift the bans? Otherwise we’ll be held up for 21 days with no tangible outcomes.
But why is GoK blaming Kenyans for their lack of control? Churches, bars, flights etc should have been expressly banned at the very least when they announced Patient Zero. Yesterday they were at Statehouse on social gathering, what example was that to mwananchi?!
I’m thinking out loud, I’ve been meaning to ask
@UKinKenya
; Kenyan education system is instructed in English, one of our National languages. We speak better English than mother-tongue but how come we still do English exams when applying for further studies?
@JaneMarriottUK
Persons with a uterus should be left to make decisions about their own uterus. Laws and legislation over women’s bodies only serve to give other people control over women and their personal choices. Instead, women should be empowered to make informed decisions, safely.
It’s like
@NPSOfficial_KE
didn’t learn from Tuesday. Today, again, they have lobbed teargas at the
@MedicsForKenya
station at Jamia Mosque/Crescent Hospital. Medical personnel should not be the target, they’re there to offer help to both protesters and police.
📸
Bw.
@kipmurkomen
I hope you’re watching
@Paris2024
and seeing how Kenya’s glory days as an athletic powerhouse has died.
As long as 🇰🇪 relies only on talent and individual brilliance, our athletic dominance will continue dying. Our athletes will go to Middle East, USA etc where
There is no evidence that bodies transmit Coronavirus causing Covid19.
@MOH_Kenya
is to revise body handling and burial protocols. Families have been traumatised by not being to send off their departed in a dignified manner, this will be a relief.
Moyale KE on my right, Moyale ETH on my left. Kenyans cross and go all the way to Awassa or Addis for medical care where healthcare is ridiculously affordable. Fixing a fracture that might have cost 100K costs 15K across. Health should be a Govt’s social responsibility.
Public servants of serious rank getting offended when citizens ask about their (citizens’) money is puzzling. Transparency and Accountability is as important now as it was before the pandemic. They see mwananchi as a mosquito in a room buzzing away their sleep....
Our accountants, auditors, economists - the money professionals - look at the Budget 2024/25 and tell us where unnecessary expenditure is so as make the Revenue vs Expenditure balance out, and do away with the deficit for
#REJECTFINANCEB
İLL2024 ahead of Tuesday.
Due to public demand, here is what I have gathered about The Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) which is an overhaul of the Health Financing (and provision) ecosystem in Kenya by the KK Administration.
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Be wary of snake oil merchants, those of rapid test kits and home made sanitisers with glycerin and spirit. Stick to what is proven to work: SOAP AND RUNNING WATER. Don’t be fooled. If you follow instructions from
@MOH_Kenya
and healthcare personnel, you’ll pull through.
So far, 9,144 - not even 10,000 people - have been vaccinated in Kenya. One week later. Yet 1.12 million doses are available. Is it hesitancy or poor logistics in roll out?
The time spent feeling useless and distressed in Kenyan traffic jams is enough threat to Mental health and wellbeing. Thika Rd now and everyday Mombasa Road should be listed as health hazards that risk users’ lives day in day out.
#MentalHealth
#AwarenessMonth
Dr Stephen Mogusu, a young doctor failed by his government succumbs to
#Covid19KE
after days of fighting for his life. What a tragedy. His last words to medics: bail out when you can because the mistreatment by government is not worth your life. He takes the bow. 😓
Today I had the privilege of being part of the team at
@AarHospital
who welcomed H.E
@WilliamsRuto
for the Official Opening of the facility. We endeavour to support the Government in achieving UHC. Like he said in his speech at this opening, ‘we cannot afford to fail.’
Since people suspected to have
#COVID19KE
are randomly showing up in any hospital, some ending up confirmed positive having exposed MANY healthcare workers, shouldn’t ALL hospitals countrywide be prepped with PPE, those that can test test, isolate and manage
#COVID19
?
Going by the responses to this tweet, Kenyans are tired and don't want to be taken for a ride. As one of the responses here says: "Nikimbizwe na taxes halafu nikimbie marathon?". Let's call out hypocrisy when we see it.
Registration is on for the Beyond Zero Marathon🏃🏽♀️🏃🏽♂️Scheduled for next weekend - 10th March, you can choose to be a part of this charitable initiative and run! Deadline to sign up is March 3rd 😊
#runforeachother
Register here:
🙏🏽
#IAmBeyondZero
#BeyondZero
Actually, the result just says that as at the time of testing, the virus was NOT DETECTED. It doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t have it, or will not get it. It’s like a Certificate of Good Conduct, it is only valid as at the time of testing/getting it...not futuristic at all.
The Ministry of Health should issue a public warning that COVID19 test results (certificate) is valid for utmost days 7days otherwise politicians doing their politics will mislead the public. Thank you
Now that other countries seem to come into the realisation that they should get rid of symbols of oppression, racism, slavery etc etc, those winds of change ought to come to us.....
Politicians, the one lot of people you shouldn’t trust. Get your bucket of popcorns and watch their theatrics and remember to leave your heart and emotions out of the drama which is never about you but their own interests.
My former classmate Dr. Vincent Odhiambo, a dentist, was this morning while on his way to work detained and held at Kileleshwa Police Station. He is alleged to have been carrying a placard 🪧
This is not the Kenya we want.
Nixon Korir MP Lang’ata says because of bureaucracy Barracks and Wilson could not respond to
#Langatafire
emergency. It’ll take two days. Also, the trucks that came had no water. Why have fire trucks with no water? We have normalised mediocrity in this country...🙄
Some of our MedicsForKenya offering help have taken fire, one has been shot,
@NPSOfficial_KE
are not giving ambulances access to her and other injured.
@KindikiKithure
this is gross violation of human rights. Allow Ambulances unlimited access to protestors.
#RejectFinanceBill2024
Tomorrow is World Health Day, but Kenya’s biggest referral hospital
@KNH_hospital
is grinding to a halt due to a severe shortage of oxygen. Elective surgeries suspended, Patients to be discharged. Kenya is in a health crisis. Some counties don’t have oxygen too.
If thinking of leasing/buying land, a house or any other property in Nairobi, this is the time to do the site visit. Water 🌧️, like elephants 🐘, never forgets its path.
As a leader, legacy is what people remember you for long after you are gone. Unfortunately, you cannot dictate that to people. Like light you cannot hide it, good or bad, it’ll be obvious to everyone what you left behind.
This breaks my heart 💔
More than a decade since our internship was delayed, the story is even worse than then.
@mmmicheni
I hope this is resolved soon.
The government spent at least 1.5 million to train EACH of these doctors and now has them sleeping outside the Health Ministry because they refuse to honour legally binding agreements by posting them on time on correct terms.
#RutoMustGo
@Nakhumicha_S
@WilliamsRuto
#Thread
A nurse, after almost two decades of working in critical care and seeing people at their worst, others dying in the process (because such is life) just lost her sanity. When she reported to hospital, she thought she’d go back home to her family as usual, but no. 1/
More ambulances and supplies are needed by the
#MedicsForKenya
offering free health services to injured protesters in Nairobi.
@MSF_EastAfrica
assist, the team is overwhelmed.
I’m waiting for the day Kenyans will stop falling for the pomp and colour associated with govt launch of projects so that we can discuss the real details of issues ailing Kenyans and the solutions. An ignorant citizenry is fodder for the political class. We MUST overcome.
Turning a year older today is always a joy, an opportunity to look back and learn, and another to look forward to what lies ahead. For all your warm wishes, prayers, gifts and love, thank you.
@CMakutwa
the bouquet crowned it...perfectly. 🥰
Today, another healthcare worker. Another fallen hero to
#Covid19
. And another day where we are on our own with this pandemic. BBI, PR and other political conversations are more important.
Good move by
@MOH_Kenya
to get CAS Rashid to address the Eastleigh and Old Town situation, to the extent of making reference to a Hadith. Sometimes the messenger is equally as important as the message.
#covid19kenya
The chain:
Super spreader event. Surge. Shock and surprise over surge. Blame us. Stricter curfew. Lockdowns. Crying over devastation. Crying over suffering economy. Ease. Repeat.
#KeepSocialDistance
Residents saying the water trucks used on demonstrators should be sent to extinguish the
#Langatafire
. This speaks volumes about government priorities and a people’s desperation at such a time.
This woman has had a stellar career spanning more than 30 years, she’s earned her accolades and continues to do so but you choose to recognise her by her husband first? 🚮
Hii
#MadagascarCure
tuletewe tuone. Wataalamu wataikagua kwa kina. Kama ni dawa, ni sawa. It’ll save us from quarantine and isolation at our own costs, money we don’t have.
#COVID19KE
In Kenya, poor people spend 15% of household budget on health, while the rich spend 2%.
Every year, 1.1 million people are pushed into poverty due to out of pocket spending on health. 1 in 10 households experience catastrophic health expenditure. - World Bank Report
1/3 Tonight the medical fraternity is yet again in mourning. C/o NNAK—> Marian Awuor Adumbo, a nurse working at Rachuonyo Sub County Hospital was admitted at Homabay County Hospital with flu-like symptoms in pregnancy, where she tested negative for Covid-19.
Countries that have achieved Universal Health Coverage started with one main thing in common: a strengthened Human Resource for Health; well trained and motivated. But what do we do in Kenya? There will be no UHC as long as health workers are mistreated and mishandled.
Also, there is swift action to ‘deal’ with aviation workers...but when nurses and doctors are on strike there is no urgency. Is it the ‘who is affected by the strike’? 🤔 Clearly, some animals are more equal than others. And it’s not you and I.
I wasn’t going to speak here about the abortion debate. The people shouting the loudest do not and cannot get pregnant. The people that know where the shoe pinches are women, girls, mothers, medics. Those shouting loudest should therefore shut up and listen.
Good to see the
@MOH_Kenya
has come round to
#HomeBasedCare
. Months ago we said it: most patients are asymptomatic, and there’s no treatment for
#COVID19
hence pointless to do hospital based care. Facilities were bound to be overwhelmed unnecessarily.
‘Random mass testing’ should stop b/c it doesn’t seem to add any more value to our
#COVID19
response except an academic exercise. Results should be released in hours, not one week or two down the line when it’s not useful in isolating, tracing and tracing contacts.
Some of you have been asking me where to get an affordable
#Covid19
testing. This is one of them. Wear your mask, sanitise and avoid crowded and closed spaces. The third wave looks lethal...
Such things and spray booths were banned by
@MOH_Kenya
. How did adults sit down and decided that spraying children like this contains
#Covid19
? What happened to running water and soap? 🤷🏾♀️
Dear
@Safaricom_Care
how do I deactivate your MPESA TU messages? And how do I stop you from future automatic enrolment into such messages without my consent? Thanks.
My colleagues
@MedicsForKenya
will no longer offer free first responder services during the Gen Z protests due to safety concerns. ‘Our Safety Comes First’.
They’ve done an excellent job in saving lives. Kudos
@Dr_AustinOmondi
,
@salimishmael_
and all volunteers 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Kenya is a cruel relationship. I struggle making sense of some things. The
#MatatuCBDBan
today for example. First, our roads are not pedestrian friendly. Second, what’s the alternative for people? 🤷🏾♀️ We have no functional public transport system like we see in the west.
I sincerely hope that this
#MatatuCBDBan
has vividly shown Kenyans the direct link between the vote they cast and the quality of life they live. It may feel pointless with stolen elections, but that vote is the solution, or the last nail in the coffin.
The Gen Z medics are stationed in various locations in Nairobi CBD attending to protesters injured or fainted. They’re dressed in their garb of trade - Labcoats 🥼 or scrubs, gloves & masks 😷. Reach out to
#MedicsForKenya
who are very well organised thanks to
@Dr_AustinOmondi
The interval between the first and second dose of
#OxfordAstraZeneca
vaccine can be anywhere between 4 to 12 weeks. First dose PRIMES your immune system to remember the virus, 2nd dose strengthens it. Mixing of vaccines is still not encouraged.
Why someone needs to tune into mainstream media like all other members of the public to get their lab test results beats me!! This country sometimes makes you feel like folding it into an envelope and returning to sender! 🤷🏾♀️