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2 weeks ago | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Daniel Chege |Hilda Otieno
After an extended absence from office, Nakuru Governor Susan Kihika has returned to the country with her twins. She travelled to the United States late last year to give birth, while the health sector in her county has been facing significant challenges, including a severe shortage of doctors and nurses, as well as inadequately equipped facilities.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Hilda Otieno
A Nakuru mother is celebrating the arrival of her new born children — quadruplets in the form of two sets of identical twins. “The babies decided to make their entrance to the world sooner than expected,” Susan Chepkemei, 31, told The Standard at the Margaret Kenyatta Mother and Baby Unit in Nakuru. “It’s amazing!”The four babies—four girls—made their grand arrival one minute apart during the delivery by Cesarean section two weeks ago.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Hilda Otieno
The recent wave of youth-led protests on social media, escalating into real-world demonstrations, arrests, and alleged abductions, has captured widespread attention. Experts are now drawing correlations between these actions and deeper mental health challenges affecting many young people. From creatively expressing their dissatisfaction through cartoons and silhouettes of prominent figures to organising protests, the youth have found novel ways to voice their grievances.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Hilda Otieno
According to the Kenya Psychiatry Association, mental illness is defined as a health condition involving significant changes in thinking, emotion and or behaviour. The condition as noted may cause disruptions in your thinking, feelings and behaviours making someone to struggle with their relationships—with themselves, others, and the world around them.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Hilda Otieno |Sophia Matoya
A businessman accused of stabbing his partner 18 times was on Monday arraigned in a Molo court to answer to charges of attempted murder. Elias Mutugi Njeru, 35, was arraigned hours after he surrendered to the police in Nakuru. Njeru as per the charge sheet while armed with a dangerous weapon attempted to unlawfully cause the death of Florence Wanjiku Gichuki by stabbing her all over the body and mutilating her fingers.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Hilda Otieno
Over the years, Simon Mwangi has been struggling with sleep disorder. Mwangi claims he has been experiencing frightening dreams and wakes up weak and tired. The condition, he says, gets worse when he doesn’t chew khat. The description of his experience only relates to a scene in horror movies. In most cases, he notes that he cannot move his muscles while trying to wake up or fall asleep.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Hilda Otieno |Sophia Matoya
Patients are grappling with a compounded healthcare crisis as the rollout of the new Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) continues to face major hurdles countrywide. Health Cabinet Secretary Deborah Barasa came face to face with the challenges encountered in the rollout of Social Health Authority (SHA) system as a renal patient in Nakuru who had missed two dialysis sessions tried to reach out to her.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Hilda Otieno
The day for the much anticipated shift from NHIF to SHIF is no longer nigh, but here. But as the government pushes to see this shift through, the Kenya Union of Clinical Officers claims Kenyans are not ready for the switch. The Union through, the Secretary General, George Gibore, said the government would have taken more time to look at the transitioning process considering the financial constraints and even the infrastructure of most level 2, 3, and 4 hospitals.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Hilda Otieno
The Islamic faith has quite firm guidelines regarding funeral services and how long, after death, a Muslim is buried. Twaha Omar, the Imam at Masjid Ibrahim in Nakuru, says according to the Islamic burial rites after one dies there are a few important rituals that are observed. “One should be buried as soon as possible but there is a provision of time if maybe someone died out of the country and the family wishes to bury them at home,’’ Omar says.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Hilda Otieno
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) is investigating an alleged misappropriation of over Sh732 million by Maasai Mara University officials set aside for the construction of a library. The alleged scandal has seen 11 current and former top officials interrogated by EACC detectives. The commission spokesperson Eric Ngumbi said the outcome of the investigation will inform the next steps which may include prosecution and recovery of any public funds found to have been lost.
