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Provision of all resources to perform Medical Diagnostic Tests across the County of Embu.

14/03/2023

Continuous Medical Education

Felix Fundi Currently hosting a laboratory Sensitization meeting on Blood Culture and Vitek Bacterial Identification and Drug susceptibility Equipments bioMérieux led by Gatwechi .

The meeting is attended by a pool of Medical Laboratory Technologists drawn from facilities across Embu County.

Antimicrobial Resistance has become a global threat sensitization on these techniques will be key in the therapeutic advisory to our Clinician for patients management.

14/03/2023

Early Morning Breakfast presentation as the Chief officer Jane Karimi, Dr steve Kaniaru and Part of the CHMT met stakeholder who presented their products on early detections of preeclampsia.

Preeclampsia is a pregnancy complication characterized by high blood pressure and damage to organs, most commonly the liver and kidneys. It typically occurs after the 20th week of pregnancy and can lead to serious complications for both the mother and the baby if left untreated.

Symptoms of preeclampsia include high blood pressure, protein in the urine, swelling in the face and hands, sudden weight gain, headaches, vision changes, and upper abdominal pain. However, some women with preeclampsia may not experience any symptoms.

The laboratory is working an interdepartmental approach to have the early detections of preeclampsia in time to reduce the deaths of our mothers caused by this monster.

The breakfast was powered by Labflow Kenya, we look forward to working with then to enhance maternal care and reduce maternal deaths.

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20/02/2023

CAPACITY BUILDING

HIV RECENCY TESTING TRAINING

HIV recency testing is a specialized type of HIV test that is designed to detect recent HIV infections. When a person is infected with HIV, it can take several weeks for the virus to show up in standard HIV tests. This is because these tests detect antibodies that the body produces in response to the virus, and it can take some time for these antibodies to develop.

Recency testing, on the other hand, looks for other markers of HIV infection that appear earlier than antibodies. These tests can detect HIV infection within days or weeks of exposure, and they are used to identify people who have recently become infected with the virus.

Rapid Recency assays: These tests use a combination of antibody and antigen detection to identify recent HIV infections.
They can provide results within 30 minutes.

The MOH is conducting a research on the Recency of HIV infections with a multidisciplinary approach and different cadre involvement.

On behalf of the Chief officer public Health, Head of Laboratory Services Embu County officially opened a 4 days training focus on HTS providers and Medical Laboratory officers to enable the Horizontal scale up of HIV Recency Testing.

Our Sectoral Partners have fully supported the training, special thanks to Department of Health Services - Embu County LVCT Kenya Usaid Jamii Tekelezi Programme and Christian Health Association of Kenya (CHAK)

14/02/2023

Please take note

01/02/2023

Kenya needs an approximate 1,000,000 units of blood annually but basically less than 25% of this is collected which is significantly below the annual target as per World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations.
The current deficit, reaffirms the need to implement a sustainable blood system.
Today we have met with the Nursing Service Manage Embu Level 5 Hospital,Heads Kenya National Blood Transfusion Services - Eastern Region, County Blood Transfusion Coordinator to re vitalizes the strategies of having sufficient blood for Embu County especially Embu Level 5 Hospital .

We have agreed on long and short terms plans to have sufficient blood supply for the hospital.
The regional Blood Transfusion centre can Acomondate 5000 units of blood for storage, however the facility cannot get to this numbers due to the frequency dry spells experienced when the school and other institutions are on holidays.

We have agreed to form a Hospital Transfusion Committee to handle all blood related issues and derive internal policies for transfusion of blood that will be coordinated by the CBTC and CMLC.
We have also agreed that in the long term plan we will need to put up a Satellite blood Centre as directed by the National Blood Transfusion Centre - Nairobi to collect blood for consumption within the County and supply to dire needs facilities externally.

We have put measure also to reduce the much stress encountered by the Relatives in Such of Blood, We have therefore planned to have key people for communication between the facilities and interdepartmental to avoid collision of information this will go a mile in sorting out our blood issuance and utilization issues.

We have endeavoued to prioritize the patients recovery First.

Did you know that you can actually donate blood 4 times a year?? Now you know

26/01/2023

Human papilloma virus ( HPV ) is the leading Sexually transmitted infection transmitted by Carrier Men.
Embu County Lead by Hon. Cecily Mbarire MGH and the Department of Health has embarked on Capacity building of staffs, Upscaling of Cases Screening, Cancer Testing and Reporting in the Laboratory.

The National Cancer Control Programme, the National Cancer Reference Laboratory in collaboration with the Medical Laboratory Services Embu County conducted a 3 day training of Medical Laboratory officers in HPV Testing using Molecular Methods ( Gene Xpert) and Histopathology sample Management ahead to the 5th Commemoration of Cervical Cancer In Embu County tommorrow in an event that will be graced by Cabinet Secretary of Health Susan Nakumincha and a team from the Ministry of Health.

The following are our partners
Clinton Health Access Initiative
Kenya Medical Research Institute
National Cancer Institute of Kenya
Women and Cancer
Jhpiego

Note: Embu level 5 Lab , Ishiara Level 4 and Runyenjes Level 4 labs will Now test HPV in their Labs using modern molecular methods.
All samples from other hospitals will be networked to the 3 testing Hubs for analysis.

15/01/2023

Cervical Cancer Facts

Current estimates indicate that every year 5236 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and 3211 die from the disease

Cervical cancer ranks as the 2nd most frequent cancer among women in Kenya and the 2nd most frequent cancer among women between 15 and 44 years of age.

Two human papillomavirus (HPV) types (16 and 18) are responsible for nearly 50% of high grade cervical pre-cancers

HPV is mainly transmitted through sexual contact and most people are infected with HPV shortly after the onset of sexual activity. More than 90% of them clear the infection eventually.

Women living with HIV are 6 times more likely to develop cervical cancer compared to women without HIV.

Vaccination against HPV and screening and treatment of pre-cancer lesions is a cost-effective way to prevent cervical cancer.

Cervical cancer can be cured if diagnosed at an early stage and treated promptly

Source |https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cervical-cancer

09/01/2023

Kindly Take Note As promised

We are determined to deliver 100% functionality of potential and existent Laboratory testing points.

Embu Level 5 Hospital Laboratory at Embu Level 5 Hospital is Now 90% functional.

31/12/2022

Happy New Year All

27/12/2022

Tunga Penetrans is also known as jiggers.

A condition caused by the burrowing of a gravid female jigger flea into the skin of feet, hands, knees, buttocks, etc. It enlarges and forms a round sack full of eggs. This infestation may lead to sickness or even death.

This condition mostly affects children aged 12 years and below but also infests adults.

The following are easy procedures to prevent jiggers infestation:

Source || http://www.jigger-ahadi.org/usafibora

27/12/2022

We joined our CECM Health- Francis Ndwiga , Chief Officer Health - Jane Karimi Mwaniki , Dr Steve Kaniaru - Director Medical Services in Providing Emergency Medical Care for Tunga Penetrans "Jiggers" to a sad case of a family in Kiaragana that was heavily infested by the parasite.

The department of health through the Governor Hon. Cecily Mbarire MGH , has embarked on a programme that will map all the such needy cases through the the Community Health Volunteers who plays a big role in Primary Health Care.
We were also accompanied by Ephantus Muriithi and a Team of Philanthropist Supporting this initiative by the Governor Embu County, this is a noble action that requires multisectoral Empathetic approach.

In case you have such case that need attention please inbox to enable us do Proper mapping.

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