OPINION: Nurses, doctors and everyone else employed under UHC must be paid

By Guest Writer,

By Catherine Maina If you have followed my writing long enough, you know I call out injustice without mincing my words. You also know I accord ...

Doctors , Nurses , strike , Universal Health Care

Jamila’s Memo: You are on your own with COVID-19 hospital bills

By Jamila Mohamed,

The last two months have simply been Kenya’s worst since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March. Also Read: MOH DG Patrick Amoth reveals ...

coronavirus , NHIF

OPINION: The unspoken inequality of the COVID-19 pandemic

By Guest Writer,

By Levi Gikandi 243 days ago, on a feverishly hot Wednesday afternoon, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta stood in the manicured State House grounds w...

coronavirus , inequality , inua jamii , Kibera , Oxfam

OPINION: Lessons from South Korea on COVID-19 pandemic response

By Citizen Reporter,

By Ondari D. Mogeni As COVID-19 spreads across the world, South Korea is one of the countries that was not spared from exposure in the early stages...

coronavirus

BWIRE: Kenya media has done well on coronavirus ‘infodemic’

By Victor Bwire,

By Victor Bwire The media in Kenya in general and journalists in particular have done well in focusing the current health challenges facing the cou...

BWIRE: To Fight Covid-19, we must fight the spread of germs & misinformation

By Benjamin Muriuki,

By Victor Bwire Handling the situation of the coronavirus in Kenya is not only a test of health financing models and budgets, but state of prepared...

OPINION: Uhuru’s suspension of new NHIF rules a welcome relief for special needs children. But for how long?

By Citizen,

In the last week or so, I have been having discussions here on the financial costs special needs parents face. As I had explained in an earlier thr...

NHIF rules , special needs

BWIRE: Why Universal Health Coverage will remain a pipe dream

By Victor Bwire,

By Victor Bwire While the intent to provide health care to Kenyans is evident, things on the ground are different; the current state of policy conf...

Beyond Zero Campaign , Universal Health Coverage

BWIRE: Why Africa must face climate change head on

By Citizen,

By Victor Bwire Accelerated effects of climate change including prolonged droughts are taking a toll on the economies of people in the Great Horn o...

Ecobank Ventures into Assurance

By Lisa Kamau,

Ecobank Kenya has become the latest local commercial bank to venture into the insurance business. The bank has set up an insurance agency - Ecoinsu...

Ecobank , INSURANCE , kenya