Mercy Chelangat

Nairobi

Fact Checker, Science and Climate Reporter at Nation Africa

God's child//Author//Factchecker, Health & Science reporter @NationAfrica//2024 AJEA Governance Reporting Winner

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Articles

WHO issues new Mpox guidelines targeting high-risk groups

3 weeks ago | nation.africa | Mercy Chelangat

The World Health Organization has released updated clinical guidelines for mpox management, with new emphasis on routine HIV testing for all mpox patients. The revised recommendations, issued this week, respond to mounting evidence that people living with HIV face significantly higher risks of severe mpox complications and death.
Kemri report reveals high STI prevalence among adolescents

3 weeks ago | nation.africa | Mercy Chelangat

Adolescents who live in Kisumu’s informal settlements and are sexually active are likely to have chlamydia or gonorrhea, or both, according to a new report by the Kenya Medical Research Institute. (Kemri)The study titled “Prevalence of chlamydia and gonorrhea among Kenyan adolescents” was conducted in collaboration with the University of California San Francisco between February 2020 and May 2021. The researchers tested urine specimens of 1, 167 adolescents.
Crisis at Kenyatta National Hospital as critical equipment break down

4 weeks ago | nation.africa | Mercy Chelangat

Thousands of cancer patients are now trapped in a medical nightmare, clutching appointment cards they can no longer use as they wait for Kenyatta National Hospital to fix a crucial cancer treatment machine. The hospital's linear accelerator machine (LINAC) has unexpectedly broken down, leaving desperate families staring at empty treatment chairs where hope once lived, now forced to confront their worst fears about survival.
Counties intimidate doctors as patients left to die

1 month ago | nation.africa | Mercy Chelangat |Shaban Makokha

Kiambu and Kakamega counties have resorted to threatening striking doctors with summary dismissal unless they return to work immediately, even as patients continue to suffer. A circular from the Kiambu County government signed by County Secretary John Maingi gives an ultimatum to the over 300 striking doctors. In Kakamega, the county has since advertised the doctors’ positions, terming them vacant.
Doctors’ anguish: Constant transfers, broken careers and families

1 month ago | nation.africa | Mercy Chelangat

Imagine being a highly trained specialist doctor, only to be moved from one hospital to another every few weeks without warning or reason. Your children must constantly change schools, your family cannot settle anywhere, and your advanced medical skills are wasted in facilities that don't need your expertise. Why are we doing this story? This story is crucial because it unearths a deeply troubling and often hidden aspect of the ongoing healthcare crisis in counties.
Patients suffer as doctors in 3 counties go on strike

1 month ago | nation.africa | Mercy Chelangat

Thousands of patients across Marsabit, Kakamega and Kiambu counties have been left without medical care after over 1,000 doctors went on strike. Expectant mothers are unable to access safe delivery services, children with life-threatening conditions have been turned away while patients with chronic diseases continue to miss critical treatment. In Kakamega, patients have endured four weeks without proper medical attention as doctors downed their tools.
Wagonjwa hatarini madaktari katika kaunti tatu wakigoma

1 month ago | taifaleo.nation.co.ke | Mercy Chelangat

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Bonge la mgomo vyama 8 vya wahudumu wa afya vikitoa notisi

1 month ago | taifaleo.nation.co.ke | Mercy Chelangat

VYAMA vikuu vinane vya wafanyakazi wa afya nchini vimepatia serikali muda wa siku 14 kutimiza matakwa yao, vikionya kuwa kutakuwa na mgomo wa kitaifa iwapo wafanyakazi wa Mpango wa Huduma ya Afya kwa Wote (UHC) hawataajiriwa kwa ajira za kudumu na pensheni.
Eight unions warn of disruption in hospitals nationwide if UHC medics are not hired

1 month ago | nation.africa | Mercy Chelangat

Eight major healthcare unions have issued the government with a decisive 14-day ultimatum, threatening a coordinated nationwide strike unless programme workers in the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) scheme are offered permanent employment with pension benefits.
After putting their lives on the line, neglected medics now driven to suicide

1 month ago | nation.africa | Mercy Chelangat

In 2020, the shadow of COVID-19 descended upon the world with merciless force. A sinister virus, invisible yet devastatingly present, tore through communities, leaving grief in its wake. The dead were sealed in airtight caskets, their final journeys witnessed by ghostly figures in hazmat suits whose expressionless masks completed the clinical choreography of pandemic burials. The rituals of mourning collapsed under health protocols.