This is classic populism that ignores how healthcare is actually delivered in many public hospitals. We don't use personal phones because it's convenient, we use them because the system depends on them.
In many facilities there are no functional no integrated communication systems, no hospital-issued smartphones or tablets. Personal phones are routinely used to: • Access web-based Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). • Consult clinical guidelines and drug reference resources at the point of care. • Coordinate emergency referrals and specialist reviews. • Share clinical images securely within approved in-house consultation groups for timely decision-making.
🚨🗣️NEW: Eden Hazard on the Doku controversy: ‘A World Cup comes every four years. Your first child comes once’
“People are acting like Doku is abandoning his country. For what? To witness the birth of his first child? Football has lost its mind. A World Cup comes every four years. Your first child comes once. There will be another tournament, another trophy, another headline. There will never be another first breath from your son.
Some journalists call it ‘disgusting.’ No, what’s disgusting is a world where a player is praised for missing his child’s birth but criticized for being a father. We celebrate loyalty to a badge and mock loyalty to blood. That’s backwards.
You don’t postpone the first cry of your son because a tournament is on. You don’t negotiate with life the way you negotiate with a defender. This is not a friendly. This is not a game you can replay.
Your first child… bringing them into this world… it is a blessing. It only happens once. Everything else — the jersey, the crowd, the cameras — that is noise.
Important noise, yes. But still noise.
A man who turns his back on that moment to chase another trophy is not strong. He is empty. I have lifted everything there is to lift in this game. I know what stays when the final whistle blows and the stadium goes dark. It is not the medal. It is the eyes that look at you like you are their entire world.
Let the boy go home. Let him hold his wife’s hand when it matters. The World Cup will still be here in four years. His son’s first breath will not wait for anyone.
Football teaches you to fight. Fatherhood teaches you why you fight. Some people confuse the two. That is their problem, not Doku’s.”
—ZackNani/ YT
When I was 6 years old, Israel dropped bombs disguised as toys on us in Lebanon.
New report reveals that Israel left behind bombs disguised as toys in Gaza.
Today, a cluster bomb shaped like a small football found in South Lebanon.
But keep talking about Israel not targeting children.
Respecting a cadaver is the first tribute every doctor pays on the journey to becoming one. We learn human anatomy through the selfless gift of those who donated their bodies. Disrespecting a cadaver is an act of sacrilege!
Last weekend, many doctors travelled to Bondo to stand with a colleague and friend as he laid his father to rest. It was meant to be a day of mourning, remembrance, and community.
Then, right outside Yieke Primary School where the send-off ceremony was taking place, tragedy struck.
We heard a scream. Then a crash followed by silence.
People rushed towards the scene to find a child lying unconscious, one man bleeding profusely, and another injured and struggling to walk. In moments like these, instinct takes over. Doctors are trained to save lives, and several immediately stepped forward to help.
The unconscious child was rushed to hospital on a motorbike. Not because it was the safest way to transport a trauma patient, but because it was the only option available in that moment. Another doctor offered his personal vehicle to transport the severely injured man to this same Bondo Sub-County Hospital. Several other doctors followed behind, hoping that once the patients arrived, they would receive the emergency care they desperately needed.
That is when the nightmare began. The doctors arrived at the hospital only to discover that there were no gloves. No basic emergency supplies. No essential medications needed to stabilize critically injured patients. Doctors who had travelled hundreds of kilometres from Nairobi for a funeral suddenly found themselves pooling their own money to purchase the most basic necessities required to save lives. Just imagine that.
Critically injured patients and healthcare workers willing and ready to help. Yet the system had failed at the most fundamental level.
That is why it is difficult not to feel a deep sense of fury when we see state-of-the-art funeral parlor being commissioned in facilities that cannot guarantee gloves, emergency drugs, or basic trauma supplies.
The purpose of a health system is first and foremost to preserve life. Dignified care in death matters, but it should never come before the essentials needed to save the living.
As a country, we should be deeply troubled by this because too often we lack the basics that make the difference between life and death.
Let’s talk about something as basic as gloves. One of the culture shocks I had in Germany is that in every patient’s room kuna 3 boxes of gloves in different sizes. Sometimes the healthcare workers will change gloves upto 5x when dealing with a single patient. Saa hiyo the most common phrase you’ll hear in KNH is “unawaste gloves/something else” and usually, the one or 2 boxes rotating in a ward are in the custody of a nurse and you have to walk around to find them or ask to get a pair. Mind you we’re not talking about a specialized medical device. Basic gloves.
But apparently we’re capable of handling another country’s epidemic.
🚨🗣️ Michael Ballack on facing Manchester United in the 2008 Champions League final:
“That Manchester United team was honestly the toughest side I ever faced in my career. They were unstoppable. Cristiano Ronaldo, Rooney, Tévez… they attacked you from everywhere and scored goals for fun. Even today, I’m still surprised we managed to take that game to penalties because over 90 minutes they could destroy any team in the world.
Sir Alex Ferguson was different. For me, he’s the greatest manager of all time because of how he sustained that level year after year. Competing against his United side was mentally exhausting.
Sometimes I see fans mocking Manchester United because they haven’t won the league since 2013, but people forget what that club represents. When Manchester United finally get everything right and return to their prime, every other team in the Premier League will be in serious trouble.”
💣🚨 Nemanja Vidic on Lisandro Martínez:
🗣️ “I think Carrick should try Lisandro Martínez at DM in the remaining two games.
He would be more effective there with his line-breaking passes, press resistance, scanning ability, positioning, and overall awareness.
Vitinha is 5’8.
Lisandro Martínez is 5’9.
This could also give Heaven the opportunity to play as the left centre-back.
Lisandro is technically good enough to handle the DM role, and honestly, I also think it could help reduce some of the injuries he picks up playing in defence.”