The Mountain Journal Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has called for a quick resolution to the ongoing nurses strike for patients across the country to receive requisite medical care.The DP urged the Council of Governors and Kenya National Union of Nurses and Midwives Union together with the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) to resolve outstanding issues…
The Mountain Journal Laikipia county government is investing in the construction of an imaging centre and a modern mortuary in efforts to improve its service delivery. In the venture, the county government will spend Sh 70 million for the establishment of the critical units that will be done within the The Nanyuki Teaching and Referral…
The Mountain Journal Murang’a County is exploring the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to transform healthcare service delivery designed to improve patient experience across its health facilities. Health officials have been holding consultative forums with the executive team from Zaideh Global based in Israel and Dubai discussing the partnership aimed at integrating AI into healthcare…
The Mountain Journal Nurses’ strike has continued to impact negatively on the operations at the health facilities in Laikipia County in the past three weeks. Families with the sick and expectant mothers are forced to take them to far distances as the Nyahururu and Nanyuki Referral Hospitals among other facilities stopped admitting the critically ill…
By DPCSKenya is prepared to handle an outbreak of the Ebola disease that has devastated some countries in Central and East Africa though no case has yet been reported in the country.This is according to Deputy President Kithure Kindiki who says the preparedness of handling the disease and other disasters in Kenya has been enhanced…
The Mountain Journal The health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale launched Kenya’s first structured universal newborn hearing screening programme . Duale described the hearing system as a landmark initiative that will significantly improve early diagnosis and treatment of hearing loss among newborn children. He spoke after he visited the Centre of Excellence for Ear Screening and…
The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Residents of Nanyuki engaged the police in running battles over the establishment of the American Government backed Ebola Quarantine Facility at the Laikipia Airbase. Bonfires were lit by the protestors who barricaded the major roads as the police helped to put off the fires and cleared the huge boulders from the…
The Mountain Journal i Nanyuki residents have in the last three days watched the skies of large aircrafts flying in a group of three flying into the highly guarded Laikipia Air Base transporting equipment for the Ebola Quarantine and Isolation Facility.. In the last three days, the residents’ eyes glued to the skies as the…
Photo/ Murang’a Governor Irungu Kang’ata addressing the residents and persons with special needs at Maragua Level Four Hospital to mark World for Persons with Disability. The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Murang’a county government marked the World Disability Day Persons with Disabilities as it stepped up strategies to uplift their living standards through distribution of devices. Governor…
The Mountain Journal All the 170 public health facilities in Murang’a County have been connected with a speedy internet designed to transform the health sector. In the transformation programme, all the health centres and dispensaries located in the far locations have been connected through internet connectivity for the interest of promoting the health of the…
