Youths mission to end mental illness stigma
Summary
The youths under an initiative known as Pepea have suffered mental illness and come together to share their experiences, information and in so doing demystify mental health issues under the support of the Psychiatric Disability Organisation.
The youths believe they can have a profound impact on the management and healing of the disease.
Thursday May 13 2021
Mr Iregi Mwenja (left) CEO of Psychiatric Disability Organisation speaks to some of the young people who attended the mental health wellbeing awareness workshop at the Wildlife Club of Kenya Hall at Lake Nakuru National Park on April 18, 2021. PHOTO | FRANCIS MUREITHI | NMG
Stephen Otieno, the Migori Football Club goalkeeper is vaccinated against Covid-19 at Migori County Referral Hospital on April 19, 2021. Youth football clubs in Migori have sent their members for the vaccine. [Caleb Kingwara, Standard]
Kenya’s presidential lockdown in the five ‘diseased counties’ has helped reduce Covid-19 infections, according to health experts and government officials, but fatalities remain high.
Experts are also warning of a fourth wave due to mutations and that Kenyans should not lower their guard on the face of increased fatalities despite numbers of infections and hospitalisations reducing.
President Uhuru Kenyatta locked the most affected counties on March 26 and “currently, we do not have pressure on the healthcare system as witnessed in early March and April, where patients in critical state were struggling to secure ICU beds,” said Patrick Amoth, the Director General of Health.
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Dominic Omondi |
February 27th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
The taxman has deflated the spirits of Members of County Assemblies after confirming that the car grants they received from the State will be taxed.
In an advisory to the chairman of the Council of Governors (CoG) Chairman Martin Wambora, the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) said the loan, which had been converted into a grant following a presidential decree, would attract a 30 per cent income tax before hitting the accounts of MCAs.
“On the issue of ‘car grant,’ since it is payable to the said employees in form of cash, it therefore qualifies as income from employment as ‘other allowances ,” said KRA’s Commissioner of Domestic Taxes Rispah Simiyu.
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