“The easiest way these girls will get cash is through involvement with bodaboda operators and for lack of sexuality education, many end up engaging in unproductive sex that usually leads to pregnancy,”
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Elgeyo Marakwet County Health and Sanitation Chief Officer Mary Kipchumba said the teleconferencing center will go a long way in handling different patients' cases across the County with ease.
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The exercise aims at vaccinating girls aged between 10 and 14 with Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to protect them against cervical cancer, children between 9 to 59 months with measles-rubella (MR), and pregnant women who have not received Tetanus-Diphtheria.
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In the motion moved by Nominated MCA Catharine Barmao, the department of health has been directed to conduct an inspection of all schools within the municipality to identify all that are yet to replace their asbestos roofing.
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Speaking after hosting the Iranian Ambassador to Kenya Jafar Barmaki, Uasin Gishu Governor Jackson Mandago said collaboration between investors from Iran and Kenya will help ensure easy and seamless transfer of technology on manufacturing of medical equipment to the country.
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Nominated MCA Mary Goretti Boroswa while moving the motion lamented that as a result of the pharmacies’ closure, many lives have been lost as patients could not afford drugs being sold at private pharmacies.
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Another misconception has been that once vaccinated, a person is likely to lose his/her 'bedroom appetite' which the County Executive said was not true.
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According to Dr. Busakhala, Wisindi Naftali, a healthcare practitioner, specializing as a Physician, even in this 21st century, there is a number of people who still link cancer to witchcraft and the work of the devil.
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