Battle: Dar es Salaam vs Nairobi
Battle: Dar es Salaam vs Nairobi
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Halafu jkci is to be expanded!
Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute overwhelmed by patients
The Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute (JKCI) is overwhelmed by patients, thanks to increased awareness and 'affordability' of the treatment costs through health insurance cover.
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Labda tukasome jinsi gani ya ku introduce worse slums 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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OHI says. .
While some cardiac surgery can be performed independently in Tanzania, we help train the local team so that more complex surgery can be done. Cardiac services throughout East Africa are struggling for self-sufficiency, leaving Tanzania the main cardiac centre for a region of over 400 million people. This is reflected in a surging wait list, currently in the thousands, that will see many die while waiting for surgery.
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While some cardiac surgery can be performed independently in Tanzania, we help train the local team so that more complex surgery can be done. Cardiac services throughout East Africa are struggling for self-sufficiency, leaving Tanzania the main cardiac centre for a region of over 400 million people. This is reflected in a surging wait list, currently in the thousands, that will see many die while waiting for surgery.
Tanzania - OHI
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New heart institute at KCMC Moshi
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yes behind Tanzania by far!
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Haimaanishi ukiwa na mtu wa VVV kwa boma lako kwa boma la jirani pia yumo,mlifanya 152 kwa sababu nyie mnaugua hayo magonjwa Sana kutuliko .
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60 In the whole year of 2018? 😀
M.P. Shah Hospital Performs 25 Free Heart Surgeries - M.P. Shah Hospital
25 children with heart-related defects have undergone free medical operations at M.P. Shah Hospital sponsored by the hospital in collaboration with a medical team from Healing Little Hearts Charity and Jain Social Group.During the 10-day initiative that began on November 8 and ended on November...mpshahhosp.org
Bugando did 152 heart surgeries in 2013!
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So kwann munavuka border kuja huku kutafuta matibabu ya cancer na moyo???
Kigali is just one road. They can't even compete with a place like Nakuru. Pia why compare the best with the worst? doesn't make any sense. But sense is what misses in this forum. Huyo mKenya ni ghasia tu ambayo inaishi Eastlands na haitaki kufanya kazi. Wanajua watapata retweets na likes kwa kucriticize kila kitu
Britain woos Kenya with Sh170bn deals in summit
The deals will cut across housing, finance, renewables, and entrepreneurship.www.businessdailyafrica.com
Kenya-based British firms top winners in UK-Africa summit
British firms with operations in Kenya signed a raft of business deals during the UK-Africa Investment conference.
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Alaa kumbe Kigali ina barabara moja wewe akili yako iko sawa yani Kigali nzima iwe na barabara moja hvi nyinyi hua munachukulia mambo simple sana tokeni Kenya mutembee muone dunia ilivobadilika mbuzi wewe
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like this case..
MPs probe Medanta Hospital in referral-for-bribes scandal
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 2016 23:00
Health ministry has been investigating medics for sending patients to India in return for money. PHOTO | FILE
Parliament has opened investigations into the activities of Medanta Africare — the hospital accused of notoriously referring patients to India in return for a Sh200,000 kickback per patient.
The National Assembly’s Health Committee launched the investigations after initial reports indicated that the Kenyan hospital’s Indian affiliate is properly registered but has been using different names in contracts with medical regulatory bodies.
The reports indicate that while the hospital’s certificate of incorporation reads Africare Limited, its Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board (KMPDB) registration certificate reads Africare Limited Hospital.
KMPDB chief executive Daniel Yumbia Thursday told Parliament that the Board had “not issued any licence to a facility called “Medanta”.
The hospital, which is contracted to offer medical services to National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) contributors is registered with the public health insurer as Africare Limited (Medanta Hospital), according to NHIF chief executive Gitau Mwangi.
Mr Yumbya and Mr Mwangi were testifying before the committee, whose sessions followed an inspection visit to the facility in Nairobi’s Westlands area.
Parliament opened investigations into the hospital after a former employee, Brian Onyango, filed a petition accusing the facility’s managers of exploiting the patients.
MPs established during the visit that Africare’s outpatient facility is an affiliate of India’s Medanta Hospital and wondered whether the use of multiple names was a ploy to escape responsibility in the event a legal suit is filed against it.
Parliament also heard that the troubled facility is not in any way connected to New Delhi’s Medanta Hospital. An employee who worked at the facility for four years said the management had “knowingly” misled patients to believe that it is a branch of the Indian hospital”.
MPs also poked holes into the KMPDB’s decision to elevate the facility to Level Four Status despite its outpatient status.
Mr Yumbya said the decision to elevate Africare Limited Hospital to Level Four was reached after the board inspected it as required by law. Any medical facility registered as Level Four should have admission facilities and offer national referral services.
Africare, however, does not have wards and has been operating as a “day care” facility that serves between 250 and 300 patients a day.
The facility, which claims to offer laparotomy (surgical procedure of the abdomen) does not have wards, begging the question of how it manages to offer the service that ordinarily requires patents to get admitted for a number of days.
The committee promised to institute punitive action, including disbandment, against the medical board, should it establish at the end of the inquiry that it failed to protect Kenyans against rogue practitioners.
It has been established that the facility through its 14 satellite clinics spread across Kenya has clinical officers masquerading as doctors, a move that amounts to professional fraud.
Mr Onyago had in his petition claimed that patients seeking Africare’s services are charged as if they are being attended to by doctors yet they were only being seen by clinical officers.
The committee also promised to probe clinics that are run by clinical officers masquerading as doctors, citing the recent case where a ‘doctor’ Mugo -- a nurse -- masqueraded as a gynaecologist and allegedly raped women patients.
Hospitals are supposed to charge higher fees for consulting a doctor and reduce the fee for patients seen by clinical officers.
The petitioner also alleged that Africare has installed CCTV cameras in the patients’ dialysis room, contrary to the standard medical practices.
Installing cameras in treatment rooms infringes on patients’ rights to privacy and is punishable under the law.
Signs that referral for foreign treatment in return for a fee is happening at the hospital came from the fact that patients in need of hip replacement, a procedure that can be done locally, were being referred to India at a higher cost.
Endebes MP Robert Pukose, who is the committee’s vice chair, said the referral- for -a - bribe scam borders on medical malpractice and also damages the reputation of local doctors who are trained in Kenya and are painted as offering low quality services.
Africare president Anil Maini said the facility is “clean” and was a victim of rivals seeking to pull it down.
Dr Maini said Africare is driven by the quest to provide affordable, ethical and clinically positive outcomes and that it made no money from referring patients to India.
Committee chairperson and Kitui South MP, Rachel Nyamai, said the petitioner had met the MPs on April 19, and presented evidence which has since been supported by another person working at the facility.
smurumba@ke.nationmedia.com; ligadwah@ke.nationmedia.com
MPs probe Medanta Hospital in referral-for-bribes scandal
Parliament has opened investigations into the activities of Medanta Africare — the hospital accused of notoriously referring patients to India in return for a Sh200,000 kickback per patient.
www.businessdailyafrica.com
after promising this...
Africans seeking health-care in India draw hospitals to Kenya
4 min read . Updated: 25 Nov 2016, 09:48 AM ISTHelen Nyambura-Mwaura, Samuel Gebre
Sub-Saharan Africa's private health-care industry is estimated to be worth about $21 billion, according to the IFC, and may double in value over the next decade
Nairobi: Cash-rich Indian hospital groups such as recently listed Narayana Hrudayalaya Ltd. are setting up operations in Africa to tap a growing stream of middle class patients from the continent seeking quality health-care.
With financing from Abraaj Group’s Africa Health Fund and the International Finance Corp., the Mumbai-listed group is partnering with Kenyan investors and will break ground on a 130-bed specialist cardiac hospital in the capital, Nairobi, in January. Another group of investors is joining forces with Gurgaon, India-based Medanta Hospital to set up a 200-bed facility in the East African nation.
“A lot of these companies have figured out that they are getting a significant number of patients from Africa," said Biju Mohandas, who heads the IFC’s health-investment team in Nairobi. “They want to be among the first to get a toehold in Africa and ride the growth wave even as they continue to expand back in India."
Sub-Saharan Africa’s private health-care industry is estimated to be worth about $21 billion, according to the IFC, and may double in value over the next decade. Last year, East Africans spent about $1 billion seeking medical attention in India, according to Khama Rogo, head of the World Bank’s Health in Africa Initiative. About 30,000 Nigerians went there for treatment, he said, citing a government study in Africa’s most-populous nation.
Demand for private health-care in Africa is growing as wealth on the continent expands. About 34% of the population can be defined as middle class — those spending between $2 and $20 daily — compared with 27% in 2000, according to the African Development Bank.
Establishing roots
The Indian companies putting down roots in East Africa will provide cheaper health-care than private African hospitals such as the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, according to Anil Maini, Medanta Africare’s chief executive officer.
They’ll also look to provide specialist care for increasingly frequent non-communicable illnesses, including cancer, he said.
While many Africans seek treatment at ill-equipped government hospitals, most are often willing to sell off family land or hold fundraisers to collect the money demanded by private hospitals for better care. “There’s a gap in tertiary-care providers such as oncology and these are the services that most Kenyans are going to India for," Maini said at the
Medanta-affiliated Nairobi clinic he helped to set up four years ago after moving to Kenya from The Medicity in Gurgaon.
An open-heart procedure at leading private hospitals in Nairobi could cost as much as $15,000, according to Mohandas. At Narayana, it would be $2,000.
“The difference in costs is stark," he said. “Even if the same cannot be replicated by them here, I would guess it would be at least 30% cheaper."
Private market
Medanta Africare, a joint venture between Kenyan investors and Delhi-based RJ Group of India, plans to begin constructing a 200-bed tertiary-care facility for $18 million in Nairobi in 2017, according to Maini. The company will deploy managerial and technical experts from its operations in India, where about 4,000 medical tourists seek attention annually, 40 percent of them African.
The business invested $30 million in 25 clinics across East Africa’s biggest economy since 2012.
Over the past decade, Indian brands including Apollo Healthcare and Moolchand Healthcare, have set up shop in nations including Nigeria, South Africa, Mauritius, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, according to Aditi Bhalla, a health industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan.
“Owing to the increasing purchasing power, the thriving middle class in African nations is willing to, and capable of, paying for health-care services offered by private market participants," Chennai, India-based Bhalla said in an e-mailed response to questions.
Fortis Healthcare, India’s second-biggest hospital group by market value, is partnering with Ciel Healthcare Africa of Mauritius to run hospitals in Uganda and Nigeria. Chennai-based Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospitals has 10 facilities in African nations including Ghana and Mozambique.
Business model
While African nations have failed to overhaul a health system bequeathed by former colonial rulers that were designed to cater for the wealthy, India’s model relies on large numbers of patients to drive profit, which has helped to reduce treatment costs.
“That’s the business model that Africa needs, because Africa has numbers of poor people just like India has numbers of poor people," Rogo said in an interview in Nairobi. “The African came to discover that he can go and be part of the numbers. That’s why we are boarding the planes and going there and that only reinforces their business model."
While they can improve operational efficiency, a combination of relatively cheap and well-trained labour, affordable medicine and medical equipment mean that Indian companies in Africa will struggle to replicate the affordable care they offer in India.
Kenyan nurses earn a minimum of 40,000 shillings ($400) month, including allowances for housing, commuting and uniforms, according to Kenya Nurses Union statistics. Their counterparts in India take home about Rs2,500 to Rs6,000 ($36-$88) a month, the Times of India reported in September, citing Arun Kadam, executive president of the Maharashtra State Nurses Association.
“It’s unlikely that they can replicate India prices in Africa and will need to adapt to the local market context," Mohandas said.
Bloomberg
Africans seeking health-care in India draw hospitals to Kenya
Sub-Saharan Africa's private health-care industry is estimated to be worth about $21 billion, according to the IFC, and may double in value over the next decade
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You just posted a long essay that talks about African seeking quality medication in India, what is your point?.
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MPs probe Medanta Hospital in referral-for-bribes scandal
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 2016 23:00
Health ministry has been investigating medics for sending patients to India in return for money. PHOTO | FILE
Parliament has opened investigations into the activities of Medanta Africare — the hospital accused of notoriously referring patients to India in return for a Sh200,000 kickback per patient.
The National Assembly’s Health Committee launched the investigations after initial reports indicated that the Kenyan hospital’s Indian affiliate is properly registered but has been using different names in contracts with medical regulatory bodies.
The reports indicate that while the hospital’s certificate of incorporation reads Africare Limited, its Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board (KMPDB) registration certificate reads Africare Limited Hospital.
KMPDB chief executive Daniel Yumbia Thursday told Parliament that the Board had “not issued any licence to a facility called “Medanta”.
The hospital, which is contracted to offer medical services to National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) contributors is registered with the public health insurer as Africare Limited (Medanta Hospital), according to NHIF chief executive Gitau Mwangi.
Mr Yumbya and Mr Mwangi were testifying before the committee, whose sessions followed an inspection visit to the facility in Nairobi’s Westlands area.
Parliament opened investigations into the hospital after a former employee, Brian Onyango, filed a petition accusing the facility’s managers of exploiting the patients.
MPs established during the visit that Africare’s outpatient facility is an affiliate of India’s Medanta Hospital and wondered whether the use of multiple names was a ploy to escape responsibility in the event a legal suit is filed against it.
Parliament also heard that the troubled facility is not in any way connected to New Delhi’s Medanta Hospital. An employee who worked at the facility for four years said the management had “knowingly” misled patients to believe that it is a branch of the Indian hospital”.
MPs also poked holes into the KMPDB’s decision to elevate the facility to Level Four Status despite its outpatient status.
Mr Yumbya said the decision to elevate Africare Limited Hospital to Level Four was reached after the board inspected it as required by law. Any medical facility registered as Level Four should have admission facilities and offer national referral services.
Africare, however, does not have wards and has been operating as a “day care” facility that serves between 250 and 300 patients a day.
The facility, which claims to offer laparotomy (surgical procedure of the abdomen) does not have wards, begging the question of how it manages to offer the service that ordinarily requires patents to get admitted for a number of days.
The committee promised to institute punitive action, including disbandment, against the medical board, should it establish at the end of the inquiry that it failed to protect Kenyans against rogue practitioners.
It has been established that the facility through its 14 satellite clinics spread across Kenya has clinical officers masquerading as doctors, a move that amounts to professional fraud.
Mr Onyago had in his petition claimed that patients seeking Africare’s services are charged as if they are being attended to by doctors yet they were only being seen by clinical officers.
The committee also promised to probe clinics that are run by clinical officers masquerading as doctors, citing the recent case where a ‘doctor’ Mugo -- a nurse -- masqueraded as a gynaecologist and allegedly raped women patients.
Hospitals are supposed to charge higher fees for consulting a doctor and reduce the fee for patients seen by clinical officers.
The petitioner also alleged that Africare has installed CCTV cameras in the patients’ dialysis room, contrary to the standard medical practices.
Installing cameras in treatment rooms infringes on patients’ rights to privacy and is punishable under the law.
Signs that referral for foreign treatment in return for a fee is happening at the hospital came from the fact that patients in need of hip replacement, a procedure that can be done locally, were being referred to India at a higher cost.
Endebes MP Robert Pukose, who is the committee’s vice chair, said the referral- for -a - bribe scam borders on medical malpractice and also damages the reputation of local doctors who are trained in Kenya and are painted as offering low quality services.
Africare president Anil Maini said the facility is “clean” and was a victim of rivals seeking to pull it down.
Dr Maini said Africare is driven by the quest to provide affordable, ethical and clinically positive outcomes and that it made no money from referring patients to India.
Committee chairperson and Kitui South MP, Rachel Nyamai, said the petitioner had met the MPs on April 19, and presented evidence which has since been supported by another person working at the facility.
smurumba@ke.nationmedia.com; ligadwah@ke.nationmedia.com
MPs probe Medanta Hospital in referral-for-bribes scandal
Parliament has opened investigations into the activities of Medanta Africare — the hospital accused of notoriously referring patients to India in return for a Sh200,000 kickback per patient.
after promising this in 2016
Africans seeking health-care in India draw hospitals to Kenya
4 min read . Updated: 25 Nov 2016, 09:48 AM ISTHelen Nyambura-Mwaura, Samuel Gebre
Sub-Saharan Africa's private health-care industry is estimated to be worth about $21 billion, according to the IFC, and may double in value over the next decade
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Nairobi: Cash-rich Indian hospital groups such as recently listed Narayana Hrudayalaya Ltd. are setting up operations in Africa to tap a growing stream of middle class patients from the continent seeking quality health-care.
With financing from Abraaj Group’s Africa Health Fund and the International Finance Corp., the Mumbai-listed group is partnering with Kenyan investors and will break ground on a 130-bed specialist cardiac hospital in the capital, Nairobi, in January. Another group of investors is joining forces with Gurgaon, India-based Medanta Hospital to set up a 200-bed facility in the East African nation.
“A lot of these companies have figured out that they are getting a significant number of patients from Africa," said Biju Mohandas, who heads the IFC’s health-investment team in Nairobi. “They want to be among the first to get a toehold in Africa and ride the growth wave even as they continue to expand back in India."
Sub-Saharan Africa’s private health-care industry is estimated to be worth about $21 billion, according to the IFC, and may double in value over the next decade. Last year, East Africans spent about $1 billion seeking medical attention in India, according to Khama Rogo, head of the World Bank’s Health in Africa Initiative. About 30,000 Nigerians went there for treatment, he said, citing a government study in Africa’s most-populous nation.
Demand for private health-care in Africa is growing as wealth on the continent expands. About 34% of the population can be defined as middle class — those spending between $2 and $20 daily — compared with 27% in 2000, according to the African Development Bank.
Establishing roots
The Indian companies putting down roots in East Africa will provide cheaper health-care than private African hospitals such as the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, according to Anil Maini, Medanta Africare’s chief executive officer. They’ll also look to provide specialist care for increasingly frequent non-communicable illnesses, including cancer, he said.
While many Africans seek treatment at ill-equipped government hospitals, most are often willing to sell off family land or hold fundraisers to collect the money demanded by private hospitals for better care. “There’s a gap in tertiary-care providers such as oncology and these are the services that most Kenyans are going to India for," Maini said at the Medanta-affiliated Nairobi clinic he helped to set up four years ago after moving to Kenya from The Medicity in Gurgaon.
An open-heart procedure at leading private hospitals in Nairobi could cost as much as $15,000, according to Mohandas. At Narayana, it would be $2,000.
“The difference in costs is stark," he said. “Even if the same cannot be replicated by them here, I would guess it would be at least 30% cheaper."
Private market
Medanta Africare, a joint venture between Kenyan investors and Delhi-based RJ Group of India, plans to begin constructing a 200-bed tertiary-care facility for $18 million in Nairobi in 2017, according to Maini. The company will deploy managerial and technical experts from its operations in India, where about 4,000 medical tourists seek attention annually, 40 percent of them African.
The business invested $30 million in 25 clinics across East Africa’s biggest economy since 2012.
Over the past decade, Indian brands including Apollo Healthcare and Moolchand Healthcare, have set up shop in nations including Nigeria, South Africa, Mauritius, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, according to Aditi Bhalla, a health industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan.
“Owing to the increasing purchasing power, the thriving middle class in African nations is willing to, and capable of, paying for health-care services offered by private market participants," Chennai, India-based Bhalla said in an e-mailed response to questions.
Fortis Healthcare, India’s second-biggest hospital group by market value, is partnering with Ciel Healthcare Africa of Mauritius to run hospitals in Uganda and Nigeria. Chennai-based Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospitals has 10 facilities in African nations including Ghana and Mozambique.
Business model
While African nations have failed to overhaul a health system bequeathed by former colonial rulers that were designed to cater for the wealthy, India’s model relies on large numbers of patients to drive profit, which has helped to reduce treatment costs.
“That’s the business model that Africa needs, because Africa has numbers of poor people just like India has numbers of poor people," Rogo said in an interview in Nairobi. “The African came to discover that he can go and be part of the numbers. That’s why we are boarding the planes and going there and that only reinforces their business model."
While they can improve operational efficiency, a combination of relatively cheap and well-trained labour, affordable medicine and medical equipment mean that Indian companies in Africa will struggle to replicate the affordable care they offer in India.
Kenyan nurses earn a minimum of 40,000 shillings ($400) month, including allowances for housing, commuting and uniforms, according to Kenya Nurses Union statistics. Their counterparts in India take home about Rs2,500 to Rs6,000 ($36-$88) a month, the Times of India reported in September, citing Arun Kadam, executive president of the Maharashtra State Nurses Association.
“It’s unlikely that they can replicate India prices in Africa and will need to adapt to the local market context," Mohandas said. Bloomberg
Africans seeking health-care in India draw hospitals to Kenya
Sub-Saharan Africa's private health-care industry is estimated to be worth about $21 billion, according to the IFC, and may double in value over the next decade
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Exodus to India, Kenyan’s new medical Mecca
Not even in her most horrific nightmares could Gladys Etemesi have imagined that the little pain bothering her left shoulder would turn into one of the biggest, most traumatising and most...
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I've said bara bara moja in a figurative way. Naijua Kigali vizuri. However, they don't have serious infrastructure. They're non-starters. Kagame ni PR tu mingi
Kwanza this is the only main road hapo Kigali. The rest ni link roads. Convince me otherwise
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