[kictanet] Of Vision 2030 and Misplaced Priorities

Wed Jun 29 20:10:38 EAT 2011

Further to this there is a story on P5 in today's Daily Nation on a web
based disease alert system 'unveiled' by the MOPH. The system seems to be
based on smart phones. Anyone with additional information on this?

Victor

-----Original Message-----
From: Barrack Otieno [mailto:otieno.barrack at gmail.com] 
Sent: 29 June 2011 15:52
To: Victor Gathara
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Of Vision 2030 and Misplaced Priorities

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
>
> 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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