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Cholera kills four people in Nakuru

Four people have been confirmed dead in Nakuru following a cholera outbreak in Nakuru county. One person died at home in Pondamali while three others died while undergoing treatment at the Rift Valley Provincial Hospital. This comes one week after...

Cholera in Mombasa continues to spread

The rainy season in Mombasa brought along with it unwanted issues. The weatherman announced the onset of the short rain season and said the rains would intensify fro mid-April till around June. It was also predicted that outbreaks of...

Makueni County launches a rabies elimination strategy

Rabies has been ranked as one of the top five priority zoonotic diseases in Kenya and according to the Ministry of Health, an estimated 2,000 people mostly children die annually from rabies related complications. Makueni County, is one of the...

Relief as nurses in Mombasa resume work

The recent 7 day strike by nurses in Mombasa County which paralyzed operations at the Coast General Hospital and other health centers in the county ought to be a wake up call to both the county and National governments.The...

War Memorial Hospital contravened Baby Jeremy’s rights – Nakuru Lawyer

The War Memorial Hospital that detained a child because his mother could not pay his medical bill went against his rights, a Lawyer has argued. The private hospital in Nakuru County detained a child named Jeremy for more than three...

Baby detained at a Nakuru hospital discharged

A baby who had been detained at a Nakuru hospital as his mother could not clear his medical bill has been discharged. This is after the County Government and the County Assembly of Nakuru came to his family's plight and...

Selling water is a profitable business in Makueni

Makueni  County classified as an Arid and Semi Arid Land (ASALs)  is  characterized by perennial droughts  occasioned by erratic rainfall received in the region. Most residents entirely depend on rain fed water for both subsistence agriculture and domestic use and...

Nakuru Court hands man 75 year jail term for indecent act with daughter

By Kioko wa Kivandi A Nakuru Children's Court has sentenced a man to 75 years in prison for committing an indecent act with his daughter and for deliberately infecting her with HIV. While sentencing the 44 year old man, Senior Resident...

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