[kictanet] Of Vision 2030 and Misplaced Priorities

Wed Jun 29 13:44:44 EAT 2011

Barrack,

I did attend the breakfast meeting and gave my view on the meeting in an
earlier post (as did James Ratemo as I recall).

The meeting basically showcased Safaricom's mhealth platform hosted on the
cloud (very much along the lines of Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health)
as well as some interesting applications such as Dial a Doc, m-pedigree,
Cisco's health presence, and Samsung's Dr Smart. There was an ehealth
application demonstrated too though it would need customising. All
interesting but no quick wins for public health. There wasn's much technical
discussion as the plenary was short and not so well attended.

The government dignitaries made the right noises about fast tracking ehealth
and mhealth initiatives (the positive news was that the ehealth strategy is
complete and is set for launch soon). 

Safaricom did promise to continue the discussion online though I presume
this hasn't taken off (or I am not in the loop).

Regarding Malaria I am particularly interested in what can be done to
improve disease surveillance and data collection. What systems can be used
to monitor how well interventions e.g nets, spraying  are working. Any
mobile applications out there?

Victor

From: kictanet-bounces+vgathara=vimak.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke
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Behalf Of Barrack Otieno
Sent: 27 June 2011 18:45
To: vgathara at vimak.co.ke
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Subject: Re: [kictanet] Of Vision 2030 and Misplaced Priorities

Thank you Dennis, would anyone who attended the breakfast meeting brief us
on any tangible outcomes of the breakfast meeting?, on another note i just
read an interesting Phrase from a book called Surgical Prayer by Tom
Deuschle 

 ' The Provision of Sound Medical services is key in the developement of any
nation. the worlds Medical systems have failed whenever they  have been
driven by profit only, Without a consideration of the staff that work in the
medical service arena, the population to be served and without ownership
within the industry'

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi at gmail.com> wrote:

Going back to this case, it seems that a Post Mortem would have revealed
cause of death. While some say drug interaction may have been the cause,
Gachagua did not indicate which drug the deceased took.  

I have been reading a few documents on Malaria and the case described above
is more associated with death from Malaria - does this mean the medicine
failed to work? Kenya is also listed as a multi-drug resistant country. 

As for malaria vaccine, a pal working at a KEMRI Malaria project in Kilifi
tells me that the Malaria vaccine seems to be several years away. They say
the Malaria parasite is yet to be documented and studied sufficiently hence
not much is known about it. At the moment, KEMRI is studying resistance to
the disease by looking at those who are rarely affected in epidemic areas. 

Here is a recent experience where I was prescribed the powerful drugs for
the wrong disease (misdiagnosis). Our health sector is already in a mess as
all sorts of drugs are available over the counter while "hospitals" are busy
prescribing the remainder in abandon.
http://blog.denniskioko.com/2011/06/medicines-in-kenya-cure-or-poison.html

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