Pooling medical services can help lower healthcare cost

 The main challenge facing health providers is improving service efficiency and making treatment affordable without compromising the quality of care.

This entails lowering the cost of treatment and tackling inefficiencies that hamper access to care. Two primary areas of focus in health reform are lowering cost of drugs and eradicating corruption and waste of resources.

The high cost of drugs can be managed through increased use of generics with the same efficacy.... Read more »

Posted on : Friday , 11th August 2017

National Oil rolls out cooking gas initiative

 National Oil has kicked off the pilot phase of its cooking gas distribution and marketing project dubbed Mwananchi Gas in 17 counties.

The programme, which started a year ago, is being implemented at a cost of Sh5 billion. It is aimed at getting more households to use gas as their preferred means of cooking.

The initiative will see the initial retail price of a 6kg gas cylinder come down to Sh2, 000 from Sh4,400. Nock Corporate Manager Zeddy Sambu said the init.... Read more »

Posted on : Friday , 11th August 2017

Government trains 349 Kenyans in oil exploration

 The Government has trained 349 Kenyans in oil exploration over the past four years, according Devolution Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri. In a speech read on his behalf by Fisheries Principal Secretary Japheth Ntiba Micheni at a conference in Kakamega, the CS said the training cost Sh480 million.

He said those trained were drawn from various Government agencies. Kiunjuri said those trained will help in development of gas and oil exploration in Turkana and along the G.... Read more »

Posted on : Friday , 11th August 2017

Tullow Strikes More Oil In Kenya

 Tullow Oil has announced a find in the Emekuya-1 oil well in the South Lokichar basin in the northwestern part of the country. The exploration well was drilled in the Block 13T, which the UK-based, Africa-focused company operates with a 50-percent interest in partnership with Maersk Oil and Africa Oil Corporation, both with 25-percent stakes.