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MEDICOPRENEURSHIP HOW TO START A HOME HEALTH CARE COMPANY BY SIRMIE KARIS CANTONA Home health care business entails providing medical care and treatment to patients at the comfort of their homes. Home health care services can range from basic nursing, wound care, change of catheters, anticoagulant injections/DVT care, and toilet services to more advanced medical care during visits. In the Kenyan market it's suitable for well up/wealthy clients who can't make it to hospital or those who need long term  care and treatment. P atients suffering from lifestyle diseases e.g. stroke and post-surgery patients who need frequent medical attention from change of catheters, dressings or drainage pipes.  Steps   1. Write a home health care business plan . Include the types of patients you intend to serve, the coverage area of your business, the specific services you intend to provide and financials, such as expenses to run the business and expected income for...

WHY ARE THE DOCTORS NOT TELLING ME WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME? SULEIMAN NDORO JNR (DR AUDI) It is exactly 72 hours since I was put in this bed. I miss my home. I miss my husband. I miss my kitchen. I miss my clothes. I miss everything. I have been confined in this bed like a prisoner. I have been forced   to wear a piece of cloth that makes me feel naked. I even feel ashamed walking in this cloth. The food is something I even don’t want to recall. The feelings of nausea and inhibition are killing me slowly. This hospital is making me sicker than how I even came. The fact that I do not know what I am suffering from makes me more ill. I know the question that is running in your mind now. “What exactly brought this lady to the hospital?” Three days prior to my admission, my husband had refused coming home for two days. It was really killing me and then I thought of something. What if I faked an illness? I’m sure he’l come here running .   W...

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MEN'S HEALTH: The sex style responsible for penile fracture A study that was published in the journal of Advances in Urology concluded that the “woman on top” position was the potentially riskiest sex position that caused the most penile fractures. The study explained, “our hypothesis is that when the woman is on top she usually controls the movement with her entire body weight landing on the erect penis, not being able to interrupt it when the penis suffers a wrong way penetration, because the harm is usually minor in woman with no pain but major in the penis." HOW WOULD YOU KNOW YOU HAVE A PENILE FRACTURE A penile fracture is an emergency medical condition that can lead to long-lasting damage to a man’s sexual and urinary function but is a rare and alarming injury that may occur during sexual intercourse. It is usually a rupture in the two areas of the penis that are responsible for erections: the corpora cavernosa and the penile ...

NURSING MY FIRST DAYS OF MY NURSING CLINICAL ROTATIONS BY: LUCY KAMUNYA (BSC NURSING, JKUAT) At some point in my Nursing curriculum, I have had the chance to rotate in the medical and surgical ward. I wasn’t sure I was going to make it there because the students from the senior class hinted to us how smelly the wards can be. By the time I was going for my rotations I had already hated the hospital. But all in all the rotation was a must.  On our first day we were taken around for some orientation. I started covering my nose from a distance (it was the most stupid move)….we got into the wards and as we went round I saw a lot of people who were different in every aspect, be it age, sex, height, weight and a background. But these people had one thing in common, they were all sick.  Their illnesses weren’t the same but the common thing was that: they were not feeling well. I really felt ashamed for covering my nose. All I could see in their eyes was love. They...

MEDICAL WOMAN CRUSH WEDNESDAY Article by: Suleiman Ndoro Jnr (Dr Audi) DR FARDOSA AHMED, 33 YEARS CEO PREMIER HOSPITAL This week's medical woman crush Wednesday (WCW) is Dr Fardosa Ahmed, a mother of 2 and the CEO of Premier Hospital that is located in Mombasa, Kenya. Her story is inspiring that I believe any girl child to keep on fighting for her dream minding that one day she will be like her or even more than her. Dr Fardosa was featured amongst the Top 40 under 40 women in Kenya this year. Below is her story. Be inspired. Growing up, Dr Ahmed aspired to be many things except a doctor. That changed in high school at Loreto Convent Valley Road on the advice of a doctor. Today, she is the chief executive of a hospital she oversaw its set-up four years ago when she was 29 years old. She is in charge of the Mombasa hospital with a bed capacity of 70 patients. “I oversaw every aspect of the project including financial planning, architectural design, construction,...

MEDICAL MAN CRUSH MONDAY Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong:-The World's Richest Doctor This week's Medical MCM is the world's richest doctor. Be inspired. Born and raised in South Africa, Patrick Soon -Shiong is the world’s richest doctor and also the richest Asian America. He is the wealthiest man in Los Angeles, a surgeon, businessman, philanthropist, medical researcher and a professor at University of California. He is ranked by Forbes as the wealthiest American in the healthcare industry. He was born on 29 July 1952 and grew up in Port Elizabeth after his family fled from China during World War Two.   He completed high school when he was 16 years and graduated from the University of Witwatersrand at 23 with a medical degree where he emerged fourth out of 189 graduates. He did his internship at the All-White Johannesburg General Hospital where he was paid half the salary of everyone else.  Soon-Shiong who holds 50 US patents invented the world’s first protein nanoparticl...

MEDICOPRENEURSHIP HOW TO START A SIMPLE CLINIC BY: SIRMIE KARIS CANTONA Today, Medwax Media Group brings you the procedure to help you start a simple medical clinic. Follow the steps below and get informed. What do you need? 1. Register a business name or company : This is done in a cyber-café in the e-citizen portal 2. Choose a good location : Can be an area with a good catchment and flow of customers or referrals. You can either begin with one room and subdivide it with MDF/Plywood or have 2 rooms. 3. Purchase equipment : Must have: Examination couch, thermometer, BP machine, stethoscope, a table, 2 -5 chairs and curtain. Should have: Pulse oximetre, nebulizer, suture pack, autoclave and MVA kit. 4. Staff : Clinics are registered by qualified staff i.e. doctors, clinical officers or nurses 5. Inspection by public health : Go to the nearest county public health office, pay a clinic inspection fee. Once they inspect the clinic and they are satisfied, you will be pro...

Health Workers CLINICAL OFFICERS IN KENYA THREATEN TO STRIKE By Suleiman Ndoro (Dr Audi) After the stalling of their negotiations of their Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO) has threatened to go on strike. The KUCO is demanding risk and call allowances raised from Ksh 3,000 and Ksh 10,000 to Ksh 30,000 and Ksh 70,000. They also want health workers’ allowances raised from Ksh 20,000 to Ksh 30,000. The union also wants the government to employ additional 4,700 clinical officers and an improved comprehensive medical cover. The KUCO Chairman Peterson Wachira cited a lack of cooperation from the Ministry of Labour as a reason that will drive members to industrial action. #clinical officers #KUCO #medwaxmediagroup

MEDICAL MAN CRUSH MONDAY (MMCM) Meet the JKUAT medical student who is also a stylist and designer. Ali Amin Tifow. On our first episode of Medical Achievers on the theme of Motivational Monday, we are blessed to have Ali Amin Tifow, a medical student and also a stylist and designer. Read his interview with Dr Audi below and get to know what he does more. DR AUDI: Tell us about yourself? TIFOW: My name is Amin Ali Tifow. I am a tall, social and friendly comrade of Somali origin and I   come from Nairobi Dagoretti area. I am a stylist and designer and the winner of male designer of the year in the JKUSA awards that were done this year. DR AUDI: Which course are you doing? Where and which year are you in? TIFOW: I am a third year student pursuing Bachelor of Science in Clinical Medicine at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology. DR AUDI: You are a Bsc Clinical medicine student; tell us more about your course? TIFOW: Briefly i...

MY UNHEALTHY FAMILY SULEIMAN NDORO JNR (DR AUDI) I am scared. I checked the definition of health according to the World Health Organization and I got scared. Everyone in my family is unhealthy. The World Health Organization (WHO) defined health in its broader sense in its 1948 constitution as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” The truth is that no one has a chronic illness in my family. There’s no one with a malignancy or a non-communicable chronic disease. Physical well being is the most visible of all visible of all dimensions of health. It is crystal clear to me of how my family members are physically unhealthy. The absence of physical health is contributing to my family being mentally and socially unhealthy. My family is unhealthy. I know you are asking how? Let me start with my father. My father is a very busy county government employee. He works and overworks a lot. He never gets ...