“Everybody is using BandaGo at Naikarra – even our cleaner is putting in soap needs in the system; soon we will put in Maasai spears for the guard,” says Leonard Loontaye.
She burns it and injects it. She tells me she is pregnant and wants to stop. Can the clinic right here in her slum help?
As I examined her, I saw little feet. Breech twins! It was an hour and a half to midnight. It was going to be a long night.
They shifted here from the slums and replicate their habits which include using flying toilets and dumping garbage. They move here to change their lives.
Africa covers 6% of the earth’s total surface area and 20% of the total land area. It has been the fastest-growing part of the world in internet connectivity and use of mobile phones with digital access. BandaGo, which runs on these digital networks, helps medical clinics deliver the right treatment right away.
I didn’t know how long I had been there, but Uzima White medical clinic was my lifeline.
Frontline medical clinics tell us the challenges they face when providing treatment with very limited resources. We then build technology solutions that support their tasks.
He was not afraid, he was terrified. He knew being a second-Dan black belt made him impervious, but he was also keenly aware the ghetto was a fierce place.
The gangs protected me and kept me safe so that I could treat the sick without being attacked.
Just as swiftly, the same hand jerked him violently, and brought him close enough to feel the attacker’s hot breath on his ear.
Most of us do good in our spare time. Some people do it for a living. Nobody told them that pandemics are a reasonable excuse to slow down.
My answer these days is pretty straightforward. Google Maps drives me.
In which fixing motorcycles leads to better healthcare
There’s something amazing about watching people who society assumes should be enemies work together as friends and allies instead.
Last week, I had the pleasure of hosting three members of the team from Cana Family Health Care Center – one of our clients – at our home in Kijabe. Cana has been switching over to Banda from paper.
I am old enough to know now that, behind all the sweet stories and pageants of this holiday season, there is a Christmas story reality that gets some people to give up their plans for finding peace and security in life and pursue something bigger but less comfortable.
A nurse, with a half-dead woman strapped to her back with a bedsheet, riding a motorcycle through the woods in the pitch-black night…
– and you are a real, licensed healthcare provider trying to take care of your patients.
The Mukuru slum is home to over half a million people. Walking down Mukuru’s dirt streets, you see people everywhere — shopping, visiting, working, eating, and sleeping. The lively atmosphere is not necessarily what you would expect to see in an underprivileged living settlement.
A child’s terrified cry rings out at 6 a.m. in the poor, high-rise community of Builders outside Nairobi, Kenya. Residents rush to their laundry-strewn balconies to locate the source of the scream, already knowing what happened: another child has fallen from one of the balconies onto the dirt road below.
A Young Dentist on a Mission to Establish Herself in Nairobi By Natalie Walters Subscribe to our newsletter Linda standing outside of JoLynn Dental Clinic. “JoLynn”
Elizabeth was working part-time in a hospital in Nairobi while completing her gynecology residency when she realized she wanted to do something more to help her community. But to do it right, she needed her sister, Lorna. Together, they opened the new St. Catherine of Sienna medical center just outside of Nairobi.
The first thing I noticed at Community Health Partners Health Center in Narok, about three hours outside of Nairobi, was the beautiful Maasai patients sitting on a single, wooden bench outside the clinic.
Our first clinic visit was in Nairobi at Midhill Clinic, which I was excited to see because it was run by two females. I expected to find two type-A females who were blunt, business-minded individuals. But since there’s no way to look their clinic up online or even to find a picture of them on a social media site, I had to wait patiently during the two hour drive from our base in Kijabe to see if my assumptions were correct.
“We believe there is enough wealth in the world to eradicate poverty, we just need to will to do so.” – the Scotts.
As a young couple, Sylvia and Stephen Scott left their little home village near Matangwe in rural western Kenya to study and work in Canada. Twenty years later, they came back to a Matangwe they hardly recognized and partnered with local leaders to start the clinic that eventually became Matangwe Hospital.