[kictanet] Of Vision 2030 and Misplaced Priorities

[Barrack Otieno]

Many thanks Victor for your prompt response.

Best Regards

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Victor Gathara <vgathara at vimak.co.ke> wrote:
> Barrack,
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> I did attend the breakfast meeting and gave my view on the meeting in an
> earlier post (as did James Ratemo as I recall).
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> Safaricom did promise to continue the discussion online though I presume
> this hasn’t taken off (or I am not in the loop).
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> 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?
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>
> Victor
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> From: kictanet-bounces+vgathara=vimak.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> [mailto:kictanet-bounces+vgathara=vimak.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On
> Behalf Of Barrack Otieno
> Sent: 27 June 2011 18:45
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> To: vgathara at vimak.co.ke
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Of Vision 2030 and Misplaced Priorities
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> 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'
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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