Girl smile initiative giving girls a second chance

Photo courtesy of www.kindermusik.com   Having traveled the country, Evans Paul realized that there was a gap in the way the girl child was being at...

Makueni County records improvements in maternal health services

First Lady Margaret Kenyatta holds a new born baby when she visited Makueni County Referral Hospital during the handing over of the 30th Beyond Zero mobile cli...

County hospitals to get modern equipment in 2015/2016 financial year

Photo courtesy of www.standardmedia.co.ke Every county in Kenya is expected to have two fully equipped hospitals with state of the art equipment in the 2015...

First Lady urges Makueni residents to harvest water to enhanced food productivity

First Lady Margaret Kenyatta receives a cheque of Sh100,000 from Wote KCB Branch Manager Lawrence Musyoka during the launch of Beyond Zero Campaign mobile clin...

Kenya’s best blood donor urges residents to adopt blood donation practice

An image on blood donation. Kennedy Sanya, a Prosecutor in Nakuru has been donating blood for 30 years now (Photo/Google). By Lonah Abuga. He was first attra...

Embrace people with sickle cell, 10003 Warriors founder urges

Leah Kilenga who lives with the Sickle Cell condition at an event in Nakuru. She founded the organization so as to create awareness about it (Photo/ Lorna Abug...

First Lady to launch Beyond Zero campaign clinic in Makueni County

  Beyond Zero Campaign Mobile ClinicPhoto:Google First Lady Margaret Kenyatta will today, Thursday 18th June, unveil the Beyond Zero Mobile Clinic f...

Community health volunteers on big assignment in Machakos

Charles Muia-Vice Chairman-Kivaa Community Unit- (Photo by Lilian Kaivilu) In the serene and relatively calm Kivaa Sub location of Masinga Sub County in Mac...

School boys vow to support menstrual hygiene

Photo courtesy of www.menstrualhygieneday.org Over 150 boys from different secondary schools in Kibera joined girls from their schools as they celebrated th...

‘Arosto’, cocktails of different narcotics, in Mombasa is getting worse

Drugs found on a peddler during a raid by the Mombasa county inspectorate officers. Arosto is a street term used to mean being in a high drug induced state or...

Rains pile misery on Kongowea market traders

During a previous cleanup at Kongowea market Kongowea is the largest marketplace in the county of Mombasa where thousands of people from all walks of life m...

Cholera kills four people in Nakuru

An image of the cholera causing bacteria Vibrio cholerae. Four people have died in Nakuru out of cholera. Four people have been confirmed dead in Nakuru follo...

Cholera in Mombasa continues to spread

Mburukenge slums Mombasa (www.flickr.com) The rainy season in Mombasa brought along with it unwanted issues. The weatherman announced the onset of the short r...

Makueni County launches a rabies elimination strategy

A Makueni resident carries his dog after vaccination during the World Rabies Day last yearPhoto:Standard Digital News Rabies has been ranked as one of the t...

Relief as nurses in Mombasa resume work

Striking Nurses (www.citizennews.co.ke) The recent 7 day strike by nurses in Mombasa County which paralyzed operations at the Coast General Hospital and other...