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DR BETTY GIKONYO- THE KAREN HOSPITAL Compiled by: Suleiman Ndoro Jnr (Dr Audi) She was born on May 27, 1950 in the village of Kiamabara near Karatina town in Nyeri County during the Mau Mau revolution. She came from the typical village where they lived in communal huts which were occupied by five or six families. She recalls being treated for chickenpox with ash and mud from an anthill which was the common practice then. She started her primary education at the age of six when she qualified for school. This was when she was able to reach her arm over the head to touch her ears. This was during the times when there were no birth certificates and touching your ear suggested physical growth. That was the criteria for joining school. Like other village children, Betty braved the barefoot walks to and fro school and recalls that the classrooms were mud thatched, window frames had no glass panes, and the wall partitions were broken at ceiling level. See when you will start receivi...

CANCER PREVALENCE IN KENYAN COUNTIES The National Cancer Institute has tabled a report detailing cancer prevalence rates per county, a move it hopes will help shape government intervention in combating the scourge. The report submitted to the National Assembly’s Health Committee by institute CEO Alfred Karagu reveals top three most prevalent male and female type of cancer in selected counties. The report shows that oesophagus and prostate cancer are the most common male cancers in the 11 counties sampled. The 11 selected counties are the regions with high incidences of cancer cases in the country. They are: Nairobi, Kisumu, Meru, Mombasa, Kakamega, Kiambu, Nyeri, Nakuru, Bomet, Embu and Eldoret. Oesophagus cancer – which is the leading killer cancer in the country – is more prevalent in Kisumu, Kakamega, Nyeri, Nakuru, Bomet and Eldoret counties affecting both men and women, according to NCI. The report submitted to MPs last week shows that men living in Nairobi,...

COAST PROVINCE GENERAL HOSPITAL OPEN A CAFETERIA Regards: Ummi Said Omar The hospital staff of Coast Province General Hospital, the largest public hospital in the Kenyan coast region launched a cafeteria. Below are some images of how the launch took place. Congratulations to you Coast Province General Hospital.

UNSAFE ABORTION; LEADING CAUSE OF WOMEN BEING HOSPITALIZED IN KENYA JMM was a 14-year-old schoolgirl, living in rural Kisii when sometime in 2014, she was forced to have sexual intercourse. Due to a lack of information on how to respond to the situation, or whom to approach, she was not able to receive immediate post-rape care, including emergency contraception. Two months later, JMM discovered she was pregnant. Fearing blame and rejection from her family, she confided in a friend who took her to an untrained person who performed an unsafe abortion on her. She suffered complications from the procedure, and sought post-abortion care at a local dispensary, a county referral hospital, a mission hospital, before she finally ended up at Kenyatta National Hospital. Lack of quality care and significant delays in her transfer from one facility to the next led to her developing chronic kidney illness, to which she succumbed in June last year. The World Health Organization...

LIFE LESSONS CLINICAL MEDICINE TAUGHT ME: INTRODUCTION WRITTEN BY: SULEIMAN NDORO JNR (DR AUDI) “What do you want to be when you grow up?” This is one question every child comes across when he/she is growing up. I didn’t escape that question too. That question haunted me from when I was in nursery school and even years later when I was done with secondary education. Having been brought up in a medical family where both my parents were nurses, I had fallen in love with medicine. I loved seeing how my parents were taking care of patients in their clinic and that really star-struck me.   Ever since I was young, I knew I wanted to be a doctor. When a person would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would proudly say “A doctor.” And for those people that knew my family well, the next statement would be, “he wants to be like his parents.” After four years of hard work in secondary school at Koelel High School, it was time for the outcome of my hard work to be...

12 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT BEN CARSON 1. In 1987, Carson was the first surgeon to successfully separate twins conjoined at the head. He was also the first to successfully perform intrauterine surgery. And at the age of 33, Carson was appointed the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, becoming the youngest-ever head of a major division at a hospital. 2. He grew up in Detroit with a single mother.  3. When he was 14, Carson blamed his violent temper when he tried to stab a classmate, but the boy was uninjured when his belt buckle blocked the knife. 4. He is a Seventh Day Adventist. He prayed before every surgery he performed. 5. Before retirement, Carson was reported to have performed over 300 surgeries a year, almost three times the average of any neurosurgeon. 6. Carson liked to listen to classical music while operating. He says it kept him calm. 7. Carson was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2002. He is currently in remission...

MEET THE ONLY COMBINED CARDIOLOGIST AND NEPHROLOGIST IN THE WORLD Dr. Badero is the Executive Director of Cardiac Renal & Vascular Associates, the Medical Director of St. Joseph Hospice, and he is on the global Advisory Board of the therapeutics experts on Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis, Merck Pharmaceuticals U.S.A.  Education, Career & Personal Life  Badero was raised in Lagos and Ogun states, Nigeria and resides in the United States. He attended St. Mary’s Private School Lagos for his primary school education. He received his secondary school education at Federal Government College Odogbolu, Ogun State. He was admitted to the Medical School at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State and completed his internship year at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex at Ile-Ife.  He worked at General Hospital Isolo in Lagos to fulfill his one-year service requirement with the National Youth Service Corps. After this, he relocated to the...