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🛏️ Care that costs everything. Across Kenya, family members — mostly women — are keeping loved ones alive through unpaid, invisible care. No training. No support. Just exhaustion. 800,000 Kenyans need palliative care each year. Fewer than 15,000 receive it. Caregivers are

🛏️ Care that costs everything.

Across Kenya, family members — mostly women — are keeping loved ones alive through unpaid, invisible care. No training. No support. Just exhaustion.

800,000 Kenyans need palliative care each year. Fewer than 15,000 receive it.

Caregivers are
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They hold patients together with tired hands. No manual, no medals, just love doing the work of miracles. The system forgets you, but the one you care for never will. Crystal Asige Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association willowhealthmedia.org/when-love-is-a…

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When tear gas chokes the air and gunfire cracks, protests turn deadly & basic first aid skills are as vital as the right to demonstrate. St John Ambulance Kenya Kenya Red Cross #Maandamano willowhealthmedia.org/gen-z-demos-te…

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Busia’s boda boda riders are the unsung heroes of maternal health- No sirens, just grit, racing against time through darkness, down dirt tracks ferrying women in labour... Kenya Red Cross UN Women Watch Amref Health Africa in Kenya willowhealthmedia.org/two-wheels-a-p…

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A protest turns chaotic. A boda rider crashes. A child seizes mid-service. In Kenya, emergencies happen in the open — but most bystanders don’t know what to do. 🩸 Up to 70% of road crash deaths happen before hospital. 🚑 Only 16% of victims get first aid at the scene. 🫀 CPR

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First, you forget names of childhood friends. Even your way home. The world shrinks. Your reflection feels like a stranger in the mirror. This isn’t forgetfulness. Or aging. It is dementia-which has no cure. #DementiaKenya ADI Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi willowhealthmedia.org/in-memory-of-f…

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For many Kenyans, health insurance feels like paying to attract bad luck, a situation worsened by poor saving habits & deep-rooted superstitions. Social Health Authority AKI #UHC #InsuranceKE willowhealthmedia.org/why-kenyans-in…

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Besides preventing illnesses, emergency vaccines generated over Ksh4 trillion in economic benefits through lives saved and years of productivity gained... Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance World Health Organization (WHO) UNICEF Kenya Ministry of Health #vaccine willowhealthmedia.org/lives-saved-mi…

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Most health bills stuck in Parliament are from individual MPs or senators—private members' bills that get buried in the priority queue. Hon. Aden Duale, EGH Ministry of Health willowhealthmedia.org/why-a-dozen-he…

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Wahu already had two daughters but then came two back-to-back pregnancy losses; a grief that pierced deeper than words could express... Wahu Kagwi UN Women #maternalhealthadvocacy willowhealthmedia.org/wahus-story-fr…