Unlikely Friends in Africa’s Biggest Slum
February 6, 2020
There’s something amazing about watching people who society assumes should be enemies work together as friends and allies instead.
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Change-makers Mary and Joseph leave comfortable lives, move to slum, open clinic, school, orphanage
January 23, 2020
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.
Friends who gave up and changed their world
December 22, 2019
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.
Love Does What It Takes
November 20, 2019
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…
When people trust the untrained neighborhood “doctor”
November 1, 2019
– and you are a real, licensed healthcare provider trying to take care of your patients.
A Tale of Two Kenyan Cities
October 17, 2019
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.
Has Muthama been notified? The go-to clinic owner when kids fall from high-rise balconies.
September 21, 2019
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
September 5, 2019
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”
Sisters Open New Female-Run Clinic in Nairobi to Help the Poor
August 22, 2019
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.
In Maasai Communities, Where Change is Hard but Contentment Abounds
August 8, 2019
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.
Two Female Nurses Become ‘Sisters’ in Life and Business in Nairobi
July 25, 2019
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.
The “will to do so”
June 21, 2019
“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.
We’re at 12,000 patients per year, people!
May 16, 2019
Celebrate with us! That’s 12,000 men, women and children slated to receive faster, more reliable healthcare at their local clinic this year.
NYTimes, cheap drugs, antibiotic resistance and Banda Health
April 30, 2019
A few weeks ago, the New York Times published an article about the rise of drug-resistant bacteria in Kenya. Poor sanitation, cheap medication, unregulated prescription and unsafe antibiotic use have all contributed to the spread of bacterial infections that no longer respond to standard antibiotic treatment.
Part II: “It’s boring without Banda”
April 18, 2019
In Part I, we met Stephen Muthama of Builders Health Clinic. We looked at some of the challenges he faces running a private clinic in Pipeline Embakasi, a neighborhood on the south side of Nairobi, Kenya. Today, we’ll look at the ways Muthama has been using Banda Go to improve his business and deliver good healthcare to his patients – including two novel ways that caught us off guard.
Part I: “It’s boring without Banda”
April 16, 2019
Stephen Muthama started using Banda Go in his clinic just over two months ago. I caught up with him the other day to get a feel for how things were going with Banda Go at his clinic.
How is the view from where you are standing?
February 28, 2019
We are pretty excited about this map. It shows the next 20 clinics in sub-Saharan Africa that are about to transform the way they do healthcare.
It’s my phone
December 29, 2018
“Use what you have in your hands.” Earlier this month, one of Kijabe Hospital’s young doctors, Dr. Benard Lango, was speaking to a group of visiting academics and aid organizations from around the world. He was giving a live demonstration of the Banda iMed app – a cutting edge, research-quality patient care tool that the Banda team developed for Kijabe’s inpatient medical team.
Banda Go is live in its first health center!
September 20, 2018
Banda Go is live in its first health center! In July 2018, St. Jude Clinic Chokaa became the first health center to go live with the
Banda Health teams up with one of East Africa’s largest pediatric surgery programs
June 23, 2018
Banda Health teams up with one of East Africa’s largest pediatric surgery programs Recently, Banda Health and BethanyKids rolled out a new IT solution that