Patients who need hip replacement such as those with arthritis, back surgery, spine operation, or any other major surgery have to wait for up to four months or even longer, before the surgery is done. Reason: the theatres are packed with people with severe road accident and gunshot injuries, who are crowding out these patients.

Less than three weeks ago after a British study demolished the long held belief that organic foods were of better nutrition and quality compared to conventionally grown crops, Kenyan consumers have gone into panic.

Local restaurants that sell organic foods are at pains to explain to them that indeed their foods have a better advantage over conventionally grown foods.

Kenya has been selected as one of the countries set to introduce free anti-pneumonia vaccine to help tame a disease that is now the number one killer of babies and children in the country.