Kenya to launch largest oxygen plant in East and Central Africa by June
HEALTH & SCIENCE
Oxygen cylinders at the Siaya County Referral Hospital s medical oxygen manufacturing plant. [File, Standard]
Kenya will set up the largest hospital-based oxygen generating plant in East and Central Africa to upscale its capacity in the fight against Covid-19.
The National Emergency Response Committee met on Tuesday and resolved to support counties to upscale their oxygen supply.
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has said the ministry is exploring avenues for the production of bulk liquid oxygen. Covid 19 Time Series
He said the Health ministry is supporting the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital to establish the plant which will produce 2,000 litres of oxygen per minute.
Kenya to launch largest oxygen plant in East and Central Africa by June
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Sh20m treatment in India didn t help, Eldoret trip did
HEALTH & SCIENCE
Madlene Cherop on her bed in the Intensive Care Unit ward, Tophill hospital, Eldoret with her parents; Lydia Biwott (left), and Sgt. Richard Biwott. [Christopher Kipsang, Standard]
What began as a headache spiraled into a comma, a meningitis diagnosis and eventually into a brain condition that took her family to India seven times, blowing Sh20 million in the process.
Eventually, after seven years of seeking treatment abroad, Madlene Cherop was healed after an open-head surgery at a hospital in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County. The six-hour surgery was the first of its kind there.
County Health Executive Clare Wanyama said the symptoms were overlapping in both diseases, and therefore during the pandemic, there should be high index of suspicion.
“Malaria is endemic disease in the region and because of increased numbers among those testing positive for the virus, Covid-19 is mandatory to avoid spreading the disease at community level,” said Wanyama.
She said the county is using Prevention, Retention and Contingency (PRC) and rapid antigen testing.
However, due to the high number of tests performed daily, the PRC machine requires regular maintenance and repair. It is currently not functioning.
Samples collected through target testing are taken to Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) or Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) in Kisumu for tests.
Apr 21, 2021
The study aimed to investigate how to improve access to family planning and address the unmet contraceptive need in postpartum women by determining contraceptive implant uptake predictors in the immediate postpartum period.
A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among women who had given birth up to 6 d earlier at the Riley Mother and Baby Hospital, part of the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Kenya. Participants were systematically sampled and data collected using pre-tested interviewer-administered questionnaires. Statistical analyses were performed to determine associations between variables.
The study comprised 353 women. More than 76% had received secondary education or above; 9% were HIV-positive. Most had heard of the contraceptive implant, and almost half had ever used it before their current pregnancy. Older women had reached their desired family size, those who had planned for the current pregnancy, those who had used the implant before, and
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