Dr. Albert Ondicho

Pharmacist | Farmer | Rugby enthusiast.

[Dr. Albert Ondicho @Ondichoalbert]

@MiskellahMD Go for it!

[Dr. Albert Ondicho @Ondichoalbert]

@Ombuna001 @gacikiraMD Exactly, hizi advise mingi hazisaidii. Waache interns wakule hizo tucoins watatafuta pesa baadaye.

[Dr. Albert Ondicho @Ondichoalbert]

@Silas17268 Heal your hearts! Buy whatever you desire, money will still come in your career, don't feel to pressured to save everything and forget to enjoy life.

[Dr. Albert Ondicho @Ondichoalbert]

Tulia dawa ipenye vizuri.

[William Samoei Ruto, PhD @WilliamsRuto]

GMoi,your STANDARD media’s 5 days a week EXTORTIONIST propaganda HEADLINES on me & my administration’s transformative track record will get you NOTHING & NOWHERE.BLACKMAIL to yield to your GREED? NEVER.Kenya belongs to all Kenyans,not you alone.Jaribu 8 days a week. Do your WORST

[Dr. Albert Ondicho @Ondichoalbert]

@Genesismwanzo1 Majority if not all public hospitals are run on political sycophancy. Politicians have their minions in key departments to protect their interest and such people often frustrate medics.

[Daktari ya Wanawake @MiskellahMD]

Vaccinate the young girls and boys.

[Dr. Albert Ondicho @Ondichoalbert]

@SClinician53303 The best imed consultant I ever met.

[Dr. Albert Ondicho @Ondichoalbert]

@ItsBilaso Too many basic errors, the boys can't even complete a single phase without unnecessary contact or loosing possession.

[Dr Abi Mwachi @abimwachi]

Transcript Excerpt • #PartFour: Health Financing and System Preparedness

There is emphasis on increasing health sector funding beyond current levels, with 15% considered insufficient and a call for expansion of the allocation.

The Abuja Declaration, signed by member states, recommends that governments allocate at least 15% of their budget to the health sector, including at the county level.

During the COVID-19 period, counties accelerated investments in critical care capacity, including ICU beds, with facilities established in areas such as Mombasa and other regions.

However, this period also highlighted systemic gaps in critical care readiness, with limited functional ICU capacity available despite the rapid expansion efforts.

[The Kenyan Gyne (#HealthServiceCommission) @simonkigondu]

Dear @ntvkenya

On The Cesarean Section and SHA & CS Health

CS @HonAdenDuale recently dramatically claimed that doctors were forcing mothers to do Cesarean Sections so that SHA pays KES 30,000 instead of the KES 10,000 SHA has allocated for normal delivery.

The intention of course was to paint a picture that doctors are fraudulent and that he is there to save @_shakenya monies as the hero.

The intention must be condemned. We advise the CS to cease and desist from doctor narratives. His predecessor learnt the hard way.

The mistake I would make would be to engage in that frivolous debate as to whether a doctor would actually do a Cesarean Section for SHA to pay the facility KES 30,000.

First of all the gazetted Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists' Council @Kmpdc rates of 2016 that a doctor should be paid as the doctor for performing a Cesarean Section is KES 60,000 to KES 180,000. This covers all the technical training and the responsibility that the doctor takes on when performing this common but dangerous surgery. So to claim that the doctor is doing a CS for KES 30,000 is ridiculous.

Secondly the KES 30,000 allocated as payment for a CS by SHA is NOT paid to the doctor. SHA pays a facility. The KES 30,000 goes to the overall bill of the patient. So if a CS bill is higher than the 30,000, then the patient has to pay the amount over and above the SHA KES 30,000 either out-of-pocket or from a private insurance.

We have noted that even in patients who are dually covered by SHA and a private insurer, the private insurers have paid their bills on time while the little KES 30,000 that SHA is to pay for the CS not been paid. It is these many KES 30,000s the CS is referring to that have accumulated to the massive debt that SHA owes healthcare providers both in the private and public sector.

Finally on this particular issue, it is more cost effective for a maternity facility to do 3 normal deliveries for KES 10,000 each than to do one CS for KES 30,000. The costings are like day and night. A business would do better with more normal deliveries than cesareans sections.

The decision to do a Cesarean Section for any mother is a consultative decision between the mother and the doctor. Speculation that SHA is a motivator is just a political statement the CS uses to drive his agenda - avoid paying for services rendered by painting the doctor as the bad fellow. Yet he has not paid his debt.

The message to doctors as statement by a colleague gynaecology is that ‘you will be sued for the Cesarean Section you did NOT do’. If a CS is indicated for the safety of the mother and the newborn, do it. The CS will not be there when you sit in front of the Medical Council answering questions as why you did not do a CS on time or at all.

In 2023 I did an article on CS. I attach further reading for the CS on CS -

https://t.co/WZoRyXzkDk

Dr Kigondu Simon is a Senior Gynaecologist & the President of @KenyaMedics_KMA

[Dr. Albert Ondicho @Ondichoalbert]

@HelloItsSpence @MiskellahMD Salaale!

[WebMD @WebMD]

The FDA has approved the first twice-yearly shot to reduce the risk of HIV infections.

Originally approved in 2012, the drug – known as lenacapavir but sold under the name Yeztugo – offers a new way to protect against this life-threatening infection that affects more than a million people in the U.S. and has no cure. The shot is given before potential exposure to the virus. https://t.co/WHb9DD5v5t

[Dr. Albert Ondicho @Ondichoalbert]

@Dr_AustinOmondi @HonAdenDuale Yes, this will force universities to invest in learning resources. For years, public universities have been overcrowded only focusing on the high fees paid by self sponsored students without providing quality that matches the fees paid by students.

[Dr. Albert Ondicho @Ondichoalbert]

@Gtmwitcher @Daktari_Muli I believe the main issue was not capping slots but ensuring schools admit according to available resources, public universities have been doubling admissions without expanding resources forcing students to struggle to access quality education.

[Dr. Albert Ondicho @Ondichoalbert]

@StephenKam74179 @HonAdenDuale All interns are usually posted at the same time, so they will definitely be posted. But nurses and COs must hold their unions accountable, they are always silent on internship issue.

[Dr. Albert Ondicho @Ondichoalbert]

@psmuthoni The change in tone is plausible, CBAs must be respected and implemented in full.

[Dr. Albert Ondicho @Ondichoalbert]

@HonAdenDuale @kmpdu Good progress CS, hopefully this translates to visible actions and not just another empty rhetoric.

[Dr. Sindo (Bpharm) @SindoNdune]

It is sad, very sad that young doctors suffer at the hands of those who are entrusted to look after their welfare. Even God will not let this pass!
#HonorCBA2017
#PostMedicalInterns
#HealthcareCrisisKE

[KMPDU @kmpdu]

Let us make one thing clear...

[Moses Furumata @Murumata04]

In a setup where medics strike & patients suffer, UHC staff hold firm. Reward us with permanent & pensionable terms—Govt, act! #Absorb8571UHCStaff
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