Maggie Wetende

Oil&Gas Managing Trader Dubai

[Maggie Wetende @maggiewetende]

@Dr_AustinOmondi It makes me really side…:

[The Blood Pressure Champion 🇺🇸🇰🇪 @zablonorina1]

Instead of spending billions endlessly building more expressways, we should be investing heavily in a reliable light rail system.

An expressway moves more cars.

A good rail system moves more people.

And it does more than reduce traffic jams. It cuts travel time, reduces fuel consumption and pollution, connects people to jobs and businesses, and allows the city to grow without endlessly expanding roads.

We shouldn’t keep building bigger roads for the traffic we have. We should build better transport for the city we want.

[The Blood Pressure Champion 🇺🇸🇰🇪 @zablonorina1]

When checking your blood pressure for the first time, measure both arms.

If the readings consistently differ by more than 10 mmHg, don’t ignore it. Repeat the measurements correctly and discuss the persistent difference with a healthcare professional, because a significant inter-arm difference can sometimes be associated with blood-vessel disease.

For routine monitoring, use the arm with the higher reading once a consistent difference has been established.

[George Njoroge @georgenjoroge_]

Ann Mathu posted this photograph and I have struggled to get it out of my head.

Four out of the five graves in her family are alcohol-related deaths.

Look at that photograph again.

Four out of five graves in one family.

All alcohol.

This photo should have shaken this country awake.

Sadly, It didn’t.

Let me tell you why.

If Ebola killed these four members of one family, the world would descend on that village. Doctors. Cameras. Emergency funding.

If it were famine, politicians, churches and every camera-loving preacher would be there holding somebody’s child for a photograph.

But alcohol?

Silence.

But it’s alcohol.

Not drinking too much, NO NO NO it’s ALCOHOL POISONING.

Kenyans dropping dead from toxic drink sold openly on our own shelves.

Literally toxic alcohol is killing people who sometimes don’t even know what chemicals are inside the bottle they are drinking.

You could be drinking a VSOP whiskey 🥃 but a few hours later you’ll be in ICU trying to save your liver or kidneys

And because it wears that word, the world looks away and calls it a lifestyle choice.

At home it’s worse. President Ruto doesn’t drink, so it doesn’t touch him.

Gachagua doesn’t drink, so he won’t raise his voice.

And the government collects its “sin tax” on every bottle, so why would the people profiting from the poison ever move to stop it?

So the graves keep filling.

Family by family.

Village by village.

In total silence.

Who will save Kenya?

Or do we wait until the last Kenyan is buried before the world finally admits that alcohol poisoning wiped out a generation while everyone looked the other way?

The world stepped in for Rwanda’s crisis.

Kenya is dying the same death.

Where are you?

[George Njoroge @georgenjoroge_]

There is a liver and pancreas epidemic wiping out Kenyan men right now and the silence is deafening.

Nobody is talking about it.

Nobody is panicking.

But we are still burying people.

The cause?

Kenyan alcohol.

This month ALONE I’ve counted 8 friends admitted with liver or pancreatic damage.

Eight. Bloated stomachs, abdominal pain so severe it won’t subside no matter what the doctors do.

The UK has put Kenya on a watchlist for dangerous alcohol.

Rwanda has banned some of our liquor outright.

Other countries are shutting it out too.

The whole world can see what’s poisoning us and we’re still pouring it.

A few years ago we buried a brilliant CEO. Liver destroyed by drink.

By the time the doctors understood what was happening, he was already dead.

Getting a legit drink in this country is now a gamble with your life.

I have friends who will only drink in ONE place they trust, because everywhere else is a coin toss between a night out and a hospital bed.

The doctors aren’t sugarcoating it anymore.

They’re telling survivors: “Take one sip and tell your family where you want to be buried.”

Drink the same brand abroad and it tastes like heaven.

Same label. Same bottle. Different poison.

That’s how we know it’s us.

We cannot keep killing our own people for profit.

I am tired of visiting friends in hospital for alcohol poisoning.

How many more before somebody cracks down on this madness? @InteriorKE @kipmurkomen @NACADAKenya

[Ken Talks Tech @kenbonyo]

@ntsa_kenya This systemic failure is bleeding Kenyans dry through bribes and delays. We need a clear directive now to protect motorists from harassment on the highway.

Kindly retweet to raise awareness. @ntsa_kenya @alexmwanzo @KRACare @PoliceKE @WillyAbuga #NTSAPlates Crisis (4/4)

[Daktari ya Wanawake @MiskellahMD]

This is the MOST MODERN yet also MOST AFFORDABLE stand alone laboratory in East and Central africa.Don't waste money taking samples to SA,bring them to Upperhill,Real Towers next to KNH and am sure they have satellites.Good job Dr Khalebi.(This is not a paid advert)

[Maggie Wetende @maggiewetende]

@Dr_AustinOmondi They are vaping away🥲

[Brian Wallach @bsw5020]

I am humbled by the response to this and I have one ask. Can you share this post so that we can get 75K likes? It is the most impactful thing @sabrevaya and I can do to save our democracy.

[Dr. Ouma Oluga, OGW @fnoluga]

Today, I spent time in two large public hospitals.

I witnessed and followed first hand how Kenyans who previously registered and paid for NHIF (through self or through employer) could not access care because their dependants’ data couldn’t be traced in the ‘system’.

Long lines of people with weak and sick loved ones waiting for assistance from frustrated and dejected employees broke my heart. The employees made frantic calls bypassing even their immediate bosses to ‘vendor developers of the system’ in an effort to get way forward for the patients before them.

One characteristic about Kenyan people who sit in high offices and make decisions is that they have no clue what the patients and frontline employees go through. And so they dismiss complains as ‘teething problems’ when in reality, it is torrents of tears and terror on the ground.

And just to imagine large hospitals having challenges with all their networks, what patients maybe experiencing in smaller facilities across the country is unimaginable.

I really wish we cared just a little about people’s lives and knew that they literally depend on these decisions of government.

Let’s be humane, if we can’t be competent.

[Maggie Wetende @maggiewetende]

@Teddjosiah Details is everything👏🏽👏🏽

[Maggie Wetende @maggiewetende]

@DeboraBarasa

[JaPrado. @Dr_AustinOmondi]

Dear CS, @DeboraBarasa interns are suffering. It is impossible to work for 2months without pay. Most of the internship centres do not have housing for medics which is actually a requirement. The desperation among interns is at an all time high. Wasaidie tafadhali. You understand how rigorous the job is.

[Medical Intern @TheIntern254]

Medical interns Liason committee announce a NATIONWIDE GO SLOW as they Mourn and seek #JusticeforDrMoraa the interns will withdraw their service tomorrow 24th September from 12 noon for 36 hrs. Rest in peace Dr. DESREE MORAA @KenyaGovernors @KmpdcOfficial @MOH_Kenya @kmpdu

[JaPrado. @Dr_AustinOmondi]

As an intern from a needy background who is posted far from home and the hospital doesn't give you accommodation, how are you supposed to survive 2 months without pay? Most times after school it's your parents looking at you for help. We need to take better care of our doctors.

[JaPrado. @Dr_AustinOmondi]

Kindly get the HPV vaccine. Cervical cancer is 100% preventable. If you don’t qualify for the vaccine, regular check up can help identify this treatable cancer early. This is the reminder you have been waiting for. Stop postponing.

RT to create awareness ✅

[Maggie Wetende @maggiewetende]

@kipmurkomen @davis_chirchir Incoming CS kindly consider dualing Magadi Road. Thank you

[Maggie Wetende @maggiewetende]

@meelonmuskusa We still refer to X as twitter

[Maggie Wetende @maggiewetende]

@kipmurkomen All the best in your new ministry..
Was dualling of Magadi Road part of your handover notes to the incoming CS for Roads and Transport?

[Architectural Association of Kenya @Arch_KE]

Join the Kenyan Young Planners and the built environment fraternity in this very timely conversation on planning processes and get to know why the industry must not be left out in this historical moment in our country. Here’s what you need to know: 🧵
https://t.co/RO7TK8eROF