UNDP, CRAWN Trust push for increased access to maternal, child health services

By Rachel Ombaka,

Lack of access to maternal, child health services as well as poor provider attitudes have largely contributed to maternal deaths in Nairobi. Also Rea...

coronavirus , infant mortality , maternal deaths , Pumwani , Universal Health Coverage

NMS announces raft of new measures after the Pumwani Hospital saga

By Tonny Ndungu,

The Nairobi Metropolitan Service (NMS) has announced a raft of new measures to ensure effective service delivery at the Pumwani Hospital, Mbagathi Hos...

pumwani hospital

Pumwani Hospital says nurses eventually attended to woman who delivered outside their gate

By Tonny Ndungu,

A video making rounds on social media appears to show a woman delivering right outside the Pumwani Hospital gate, uncovered on the pavement in the swe...

Pumwani

KEMRI director Kamau Mugenda laid to rest

By Citizen Reporter,

KEMRI Corporate Affairs Director Kamau Mugenda who succumbed to COVID-19 has been laid to rest. Also Read: CS Kagwe justifies demotion of KEMRI Dir...

coronavirus , kamau mugenda , KEMRI

Pumwani Maternity Hospital closed to new patients as fumigation begins

By Makori Ongechi,

The facility that on any normal day would serve hundreds of women remained closed as the 41 nurses who tested positive for COVID-19 spent their time i...

Boaz Onchari , COVID-19 , KNUN , Pumwani Maternity Hospital

41 workers at Pumwani Maternity Hospital test positive for COVID-19

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Forty-one more workers at Pumwani Maternity Hospital have tested positive for coronavirus following testing of 290 staffers at the facility. Minist...

Pumwani Maternity Hospital

9 Kenyan truck drivers from Tanzania among 28 new cases of coronavirus, total at 700

By Citizen Reporter,

Nine Kenyan truck drivers who arrived in the country from Tanzania are among 28 people who tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours. Th...

coronavirus , Namanga , Tanzania , TRUCK DRIVERS

Pumwani health workers on strike over 4 months unpaid salaries

By Tabitha Rotich,

Health workers employed on contract at the Pumwani Maternity Hospital downed their tools on Monday to protest over unpaid salaries. The 70 medical ...

Pumwani Maternity Hospital

72 babies born on Christmas Day in Nairobi, Kirinyaga counties

By Duncan Mutwiri,

Christmas Day was a particularly joyous occasion in Nairobi and Kirinyaga Counties as 72 successful child births were recorded in separate hospitals w...

Christmas Day , Kirinyaga , Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital , Mbagathi Hospital , Nairobi , Pumwani Maternity Hospital

Nairobi MCAs plot to impeach Speaker Elachi over failure to call special sitting

By Stephen Letoo,

A section of Nairobi MCAs pushing for a special sitting to be held have since deferred their push to the first week of January next year after Speaker...

Governor Mike Sonko , impeachment , Nairobi MCAs , Speaker Beatrice Elachi

Pumwani Hospital’s breast milk bank offers life-sustaining feed for babies

By VOA,

Medical experts in Kenya are banking on human breast milk to save the lives of newborn babies. Nairobi's Pumwani Maternity Hospital has set up East...

breastfeeding , world health organization

Sonko promises Waiguru free delivery at Pumwani Maternity Hospital

By Ian Omondi,

Nairobi County Governor Mike Sonko has now intimated that his Kirinyaga counterpart Anne Waiguru could be expectant following her traditional wedding ...

Governor Anne Waiguru , Governor Mike Sonko , Kamotho Waiganjo , Pumwani Maternity Hospital

Pumwani Maternity Hospital gets facelift

By Dennis Otieno,

At the country’s oldest maternity hospital, Ephy Akinyi is all smiles as she holds dearly to her bundle of joy. " I came to Pumwani hospital on t...

Pumwani Maternity Hospital

Kenyan hospitals ‘detain patients using armed guards, chains’ over unpaid bills

By VOA,

Doctors at Nairobi's Kenyatta National Hospital have told Robert Wanyonyi there's nothing more they can do for him. Yet more than a year after he f...

Kenyan hospitals , Kenyatta National Hospital , Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital , Pumwani

First Lady Margaret Kenyatta opens Kenya’s 2nd largest maternity wing

By Simon Ngure,

First Lady Margaret Kenyatta has officially opened a Ksh.500million state of the art maternity wing in Nakuru. The facility within Nakuru Level Fiv...

First Lady Margaret Kenyatta , Nakuru Governor Lee Kinyanjui , Nakuru Level Five Hospital

Sonko promises Ksh.50K reward for child theft tip at Pumwani

By Wycliffe Nyamasege,

Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko on Sunday promised a reward of Ksh.50,000 to any doctor or officer who will report any attempt of child theft at Pumwani M...

Mike Sonko , Nairobi Governor , Pumwani Maternity Hospital

Mombasa police investigate ‘family stage-managed abduction’

By Makori Ongechi,

The alleged abduction of a woman said had been kidnapped while eight months pregnant is now the subject of investigation by Mombasa police. Also Re...

Missing Mombasa woman found in Nairobi

By Asha Bekidusa,

A 20-year-old woman from Mombasa who had allegedly been kidnapped was on Sunday found in Nairobi. Saida Abderahman, who was eight months pregnant a...

kidnapping , missing woman , Mombasa

Sonko renames Pumwani Hospital after himself in new changes

By Rachel Ombaka,

Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has announced that Pumwani Maternity Hospital will now be known as Sonko Pumwani Women’s Hospital & College of Nurs...

Pumwani , Sonko

Sonko reinstates doctors, nurses suspended during Kidero’s regime

By Citizen Reporter,

Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko on Thursday has reinstated all doctors and three nurses who were suspended during former Governor Evans Kidero's regime. ...

Charles Kerich , Governor Sonko , Pumwani bodies , pumwani hospital