by Teakisi | Jun 5, 2017 | Health
By Diana Awino As a Biostatisitician I have used computer software to capture and analyse health data. One recurring challenge is how skewed the data can be, leaving out qualitative data on patient information; what I call the patient’s story. Missing vital...
by Teakisi | Jan 16, 2017 | Current Affairs, Health, Thoughts & Reflections
By Eunice Aber This past one month has found me making more trips to the hospital than I have in last ten years combined. Unfortunately, my trips weren’t to a fancy hospital where one is given V.I.P care and life is taken as a very urgent issue that deserves...
by Teakisi | May 6, 2016 | Current Affairs, Development, Education, Health
By Zerida Mponye So I read an article a couple weeks ago on The Independent’s website from Dr. Ian Clarke who allegedly said that Ugandans were partly to blame for the collapse of the medical system. The article said that Ugandans do not trust their own medical system...
by Teakisi | Dec 17, 2015 | Culture, Health, Thoughts & Reflections
By Reem Gaafar I have been a doctor for almost 9 years. For about two thirds of that period I worked as an ER physician in a busy tertiary hospital in the Gulf (Oman, specifically) and for a few months in Sudan, while the other third was spent in the Sudanese civil...
