Brygettes Ngana

1 week ago | nation.africa | Leon Lidigu |Brygettes Ngana

What you need to know:A walk through a few revamped health facilities across the country might trick one into thinking UHC is thriving. Gleaming new hospital buildings, renovated clinics, and rebranded health centers dot rural and urban landscape. But beyond the facelift, the deeper structural problems remain unresolved—fragmented service delivery, chronic understaffing, stock-outs of essential medicines, and demotivated health workers in counties.

1 month ago | nation.africa | Leon Lidigu |Brygettes Ngana

It has been 20 years since Walter Thomas, 60, was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB). In all those years, he has been visiting the hospital weekly to be tested and get injections for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. His tests, which mainly are an analysis of his sputum, are supported by the Centre for Health Solutions, a non-profit organisation.