20 children benefit from free surgery
Reading Time: 2 minutes A total of 20 children from less privileged families have benefited from free cleft lip and cleft palate corrective surgeries, […]
The burden of living with Parkinson’s disease in Kenya
Reading Time: 4 minutes In late 2020, Josephine Nduta Kahingo, 52, noticed she was moving with a shuffling gait and her hands became stiff […]
Deep breathing to help cancer patients manage pain
Reading Time: 4 minutes When 25-year-old Meshack Mbugua became sick with an acute headache, he treated it as a normal condition that would eventually […]
How poor eyesight can lead to traffic cráshes
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the past couple of months, Emeka Mayaka, one of the PD editors, has ceased driving his car at night. […]
How your current lifestyle is undermining your future fertility
Reading Time: 4 minutes Indulging in alcohol and cigarettes is quite normal by Kenyan socialising standards. In fact, if you fail to partake, you […]
Demystifying dementia in rural areas
Reading Time: 4 minutes In a community in lower South Eastern Kenya, when a loved one in their active age begins forgetting the faces […]
Bridging sèxual reproductive health gap for youth in slums
Reading Time: 3 minutes Margaret Kwamboka, 18, lives in an informal settlement in Nairobi’s Githurai area. She has lived in this expansive concrete jungle […]
Open kiosk food appeals to lowly, mighty in society
Reading Time: 3 minutes Mama Health’s kitchen is often in a state of controlled chaos as early as 11am as she moves briskly between […]