Kisumu Clinches the COG Chairman’s Position for the Communication Caucus Committee
Friday, 03 February 2023
Kisumu County Director Governor’s Press, Aloice Ager has been elected the chairperson of the Council of Governors Counties Communication Caucus Committee. Other three positions such as the vice chair was taken by Carol Nderi from Nyeri County, Secretary position went to Faith from Uasin Gishu County and that of the treasurer was taken by Hawa from Garisa
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Ongoing Partnership and Implementation of USAID-Funded Global Labor Program
Friday, 03 February 2023
The County Executive Committee Member for Trade, Tourism, Industry, and Marketing Ms. Farida Salim joined the USAID implementing organization – Sightsavers in a meeting that highlighted key areas of inclusion in Kisumu which included, trade, diversity, equity and accessibility. The meeting also shared a brief on the global labour Program and the purpose of the
More ECD Centers Holds Promise to Boost Early Childhood Education
Thursday, 02 February 2023
By Matilda Atieno The county minister for Education, Mr. John Awiti today received two complete classrooms for the Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centres at Olwale and St Alloys Gem Primary schools in North and central Nyakach at a tune of 1.4 Million and 1.8 Million respectively. The projects funded by the World Vision program at
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JOOTRH Compassionate Touch.
Thursday, 02 February 2023
By Beryl Okendo. Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital (JOOTRH) Medical Social work team spearheaded a family reunion for a patient who had been abandoned in the hospital for four months while undergoing treatment. The patient, after being successfully managed and discharged, was left with nowhere to go due to neglect by family members.
County Focusses on Local Roads in Bid to Boost Accessibility
Thursday, 02 February 2023
By Nancy Juma The County Department of Infrastructure, Public Works and Energy led by the CEC Hon. Salmon Orimba has today officially launched the 2022-2023 Machine Based Road Maintenance Programme for Muhoroni Sub County in Chemelil Tamu Ward and Muhoroni – Koru Ward. Accompanied by other County officials, teachers and students of Achego Girls Secondary School,
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Global Partners Meet in Kisumu to Mark World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day
Monday, 30 January 2023
By Nancy Juma Kisumu has joined the rest of the World in commemorating World Neglected Tropical Diseases (WNTD) Day at Rabuor, Nyando Sub County. World NTD Day, is a global annual event marked every 30th of January and brings together public health officials and partners to raise awareness and to profile neglected tropical diseases to
Methadone
Friday, 27 January 2023
by Faith Lawino. The drug methadone is a heavily guarded substance at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral (JOOTRH) wellness center. The department also known as MAT (Medically Assisted Therapy) center, is designed to serve Persons Who Inject Drugs (PWID), especially opioids. This combines the use of medication which is assisted by therapy as
Building Nutrition ‘Forward’ Better.
Friday, 27 January 2023
By Lorraine Anyango Partnerships to improve nutrition in Kisumu continue to create an impact even with the latest tangible collaboration with the ‘Great Change for All Organization’. The County, through the department of Medical Services, Public Health and Sanitation, received a consignment of vitamin A, deworming Albendazole tablets, and multivitamins for pregnant women from the
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Kisumu Fish Farmers Receive Fingerlings
Friday, 27 January 2023
By Emily Mikwa Fish farming in Kisumu County has received a major boost following the distribution of 264,000 fingerlings to farmers courtesy of the Aquaculture Business Development Program (ABDP). The fingerlings were distributed across the earmarked sub counties as follows: Kisumu West 103,000, Muhoroni 29,000, Nyando 40,000 and Nyakach 92,000. On receiving the fingerlings, the
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Collaborating To Surmount Childhood Cancer.
Wednesday, 25 January 2023
By Beryl Kendo. Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital diagnoses one to two new paediatric cancer cases each day, with about four to six of these cases receiving chemotherapy treatment daily. In a bid to secure the lives of children and pay special attention to paediatric cancer, JOOTRH under the umbrella of Kisumu County,