A study conducted by UNICEF, on Assessment of the Need for Palliative Care for Children in 2013 in Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa indicates that very few children with palliative care needs get the necessary support. In Kenya less than 1% of children with palliative...
Healthcare workers in Nyeri County have been passionate about palliative care. One of the concerns raised is the low number of children accessing palliative care services at health facilities. This has partly been due to the reason that healthcare workers have limited...
Civil society groups from all over the world have released a statement condemning governments for failing to acknowledge the devastating consequences of punitive and repressive drug policies as they prepare for a UN summit on the issue next month. In April 2016, world...
Change is never accepted by many people, everyone wants to be in their comfort zone. Nathaniel Branden states that “The first step towards change is awareness; the second is acceptance”. Putting in mind that change is inevitable, I’m guided by this quote in my...
Life is too precious! Once you lose it, its game done! But many people take it for granted and forget that it is never a must to sleep and wake up every morning healthy, it is by God’s grace that we manage. Probably an encounter with ‘death’ would help one learn to...
Following the recent outbreak of Zika and the virus being declared as a ‘public health emergency of international concern’ by World Health Organisation Director General, Margaret Chan, the ICPCN has responded to the increase in children born with microcephaly due to...
