BC HEALTH WORKER
Saved by @Alex1Powell

Anyang's Nyongo's flippancy about health workers is interesting considering he is public about his battle with cancer, which he has gotten treatment for abroad.

Back in 2012,Kenya's two health ministers-Nyong'o and Beth Mugo both went public about their cancer diagnosis....

 In 2010, Prof Anyang’ Nyong’o, Minister for Medical Services was diagnosed with prostrate cancer. Beth Mugo, Minister for Public Health and Sanitation was diagnosed with breast cancer.
They both received their diagnosis upon going for ‘regular check-ups, which most Kenyans can't afford these

They both sought treatment in the US.

Two health ministers, in charge of Kenyan healthcare, preferred treatment abroad
When questioned by journalists on why a health minister would choose treatment abroad, this is what Beth Mugo had to say

"...I think I also did a good deed by leaving that space and our oncologists and that bed and everything to support another patient.”
When questioned by journalists on why a health minister would choose treatment abroad, this is what Anyang' Nyong'o had to say
In the same interview he said that the one thing cancer had given him was renewed strength to champion for the provision of affordable health services to the country's poorest https://t.co/2EsouZGolG
All of this was documented really well by @NiNanjira including the tone of media coverage focused on empathy at the ministers' diagnosis and way less on holding them accountable on the state of the public healthcare system

https://t.co/pIP3qa5SiF
This was Anyang' Nyong'o's response to striking doctors when they were asking for humane working conditions.

https://t.co/rOZ9tGxhee
When interviewed by Harvard School of Public Health, where he's a Brundtland Senior Leadership Fellow, Anyang' Nyongo had this to say about his work in public health, he had quite a bit to say-I'll highlight a few excerpts in subsequent tweets.

https://t.co/xMKuiOqKzg
" Health is a very difficult ministry to run, as Professor Julio Frenk here will tell you. It is a very difficult ministry to run. One, because although health issues are important, government does not necessarily usually take health to be one of the front-line ministries."
"Health is not like education..in education if you make a policy, you'll see kids .. in uniform in the morning, and.. applauding what you are doing. In health, you don't necessarily-- you cannot easily parade patients in hospitals, you know. So it's not as sexy as education."
"So although I was very passionate about issues in health, it did not follow that government, as a whole, could rally behind you immediately on those issues. You really need a president who is concerned about health to make your life easier as a minster for health.
"But then when you go in government,achievement is not as easy to come by. Because hold election,re-elected-the moment you get in government all these people abusing you and holding placards and calling you names. Sometimes I wonder,what the hell are you doing with these fellows?
"And secondly, when you come to universal health coverage-- let me you an example. In the year 2010 July, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. My wife, Dorothy, is here. And then we suddenly realized that there were no facilities that could help me in Kenya."
"We didn't have a single hospital with radiation treatment except KNH which was, by all intents and purposes, not very advanced. So I had to go and get treatment at the University of California, the Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, which is a very good facility."
"But then when we came back, we got very concerned about this, and had discussions with the private hospitals...So since 2010, there's been a tremendous development of all kinds of facilities in Kenya, particularly in the private sector.
"Why am I saying this? Look, in the event that a Kenyan needs cancer treatment, you're much more likely to get better treatment in the private sector than in the government sector."
"What is the barrier?Cost.If govt puts in place UHC,which means that you open access,then somebody can have access to health care in the private sector as well as the private sector because there's a financial mechanism to access the good facilities in the private sector
"In the Constitution, it says that Kenyans have a right of access to affordable and quality health care. It doesn't tell you where. What I'm saying is that the where could easily be in the private sector. "
"I've learned that, really, if you are in government and you are going to go-- you're going to do something-- do it in the first month. Don't wait. And don't be too worried about the laws, and the regulations, and so on. Because if you are, you get nowhere."
"This was against the law by the way because two weeks later the head of public service wrote for my PS,and telling him, tell your minister that he had done an illegal thing. But the thing was popular,so legality was swept aside by popularity. So we did it,and streamlined KEMSA."
"Sometimes I blame it on too many noisy stakeholders which do not have focused program but want to be on the stage and be heard ..Not that I'm against civil society, I'm a product of civil society. But civil society too must be focused in its own options and in its own proposals"
"So I think that statement by Mboya that this freedom we are prepared to defend it all our life, it's something that I think we should make alive in our constitutions, in our practices, and so on."
Nyong'o isn't ignorant about our plight or about healthcare. He has just judged our lives as Kenyans to be dispensable against the gains he would make politically through the #BBI and he's just decided that healthcare workers and Kenyans be damned.
This interview has a whole lot to unpack including the push for a private solution to healthcare by a Governor and his clear admission to understanding the problems in the system and his dedication to go against the solutions he is clearly aware of

https://t.co/xMKuiOqKzg
Nyong'o has had his hand in the cookie jar at KEMSA, NHIF, the Ministry of Health, in his current role as Governor and all other spaces he's occupied.

He doesn't care about you and I and that didn't start yesterday

You May Also Like

christmas cheer liz bruenig
christmas cheer liz br...
@ebruenig
one of the things i like about Batman is that it's fundamentally about being orphaned, and being an orphan — how this guy stays tethered to the world in his own weird, abstract, extrajudicial way when he feels that his link to it has been violently severed

Batman does this by permanently recapitulating his own trauma: solving crimes for other people, protecting them. But that's actually just the beginning; he also recapitulates his own experience of orphanness by essentially raising several orphans

Dick is an orphan in the traditional sense: dead parents. Batman sees it happen. Jason, less so: missing dad, known mom who eventually dies. Tim, even less so: parents are around a while, and involved, before both dying. Carrie, even less than that: negligent parents.

Steph: evil father, who openly works against her. And then there's Damian, whose parents are both alive and yet both have identities that totally obliterate their role as his parents. He doesn't relate to them as a mother and father; he can't, and neither can they.

In all these different cases, Batman tries all these different ways of making orphanness for them not what it was for him: Either by trying to teach them the (arguably poor) coping skills early that he learned over a very long time, or by literally legally adopting them, etc.
CULTURE
antifa.drone
antifa.drone
@antifa_drone
Fake chats claiming to be from the Irish African community are being disseminated by the far right in order to suggest that violence is imminent from #BLM supporters. This is straight out of the QAnon and Proud Boys playbook. Spread the word. Protest safely. #georgenkencho


There is co-ordination across the far right in Ireland now to stir both left and right in the hopes of creating a race war. Think critically! Fascists see the tragic killing of #georgenkencho, the grief of his community and pending investigation as a flashpoint for action.


Across Telegram, Twitter and Facebook disinformation is being peddled on the back of these tragic events. From false photographs to the tactics ofwhite supremacy, the far right is clumsily trying to drive hate against minority groups and figureheads.


Declan Ganley’s Burkean group and the incel wing of National Party (Gearóid Murphy, Mick O’Keeffe & Co.) as well as all the usuals are concerted in their efforts to demonstrate their white supremacist cred. The quiet parts are today being said out loud.


The best thing you can do is challenge disinformation and report posts where engagement isn’t appropriate. Many of these are blatantly racist posts designed to drive recruitment to NP and other Nationalist groups. By all means protest but stay safe.
TRADING
Advertisement
Dr Fish Philosopher Todd (Dr FPT)\U0001f41f
Dr Fish Philosopher To...
@ZoeSTodd
1. I was walking in the woods yesterday and I had an epiphany. It wasn’t one I wanted to have. I was thinking about today’s class, where we are reading Kimmerer’s ‘Gathering Moss’. I’ve taught Braiding Sweetgrass in multiple classes every year since 2016. It’s eminently teachable

2. Both books are beautifully written. Students uniformly enjoy them as assigned reading. They do a great job communicating to non-Indigenous folks the contours of basic Indigenous relationships to more-than-human beings. They’re wildly popular with white readers.

3. I’ve found Braiding Sweetgrass to be a great entry point for non-Indigenous folks to Indigenous scholarship. But this is where yesterday’s epiphany comes in. Neither Braiding Sweetgrass or Gathering Moss tends to the deep deep lineages of Indigenous scholarship in Canada or US

4. As the popularity of ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ has soared, I’ve seen more and more white folks wax on about ‘braiding knowledge’. But they often don’t know any of the lineages of these concepts beyond what is presented in this one book. They confidently run with this.

5. Kimmerer does a commendable job of weaving in her own experiences, her family stories+nods to some very important knowledge keepers who deserve to be celebrated for their work. But Braiding Sweetgrass does not tend to the citational politics Sara Ahmed & others teach us about
SOCIETY
KrishnaLeela
KrishnaLeela
@Talesofkrishna
🌿𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓 : 𝑫𝒉𝒓𝒖𝒗𝒂 & 𝑽𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒏𝒖

Once upon a time there was a Raja named Uttānapāda born of Svayambhuva Manu,1st man on earth.He had 2 beautiful wives - Suniti & Suruchi & two sons were born of them Dhruva & Uttama respectively.
#talesofkrishna https://t.co/E85MTPkF9W


Now Suniti was the daughter of a tribal chief while Suruchi was the daughter of a rich king. Hence Suruchi was always favored the most by Raja while Suniti was ignored. But while Suniti was gentle & kind hearted by nature Suruchi was venomous inside.
#KrishnaLeela


The story is of a time when ideally the eldest son of the king becomes the heir to the throne. Hence the sinhasan of the Raja belonged to Dhruva.This is why Suruchi who was the 2nd wife nourished poison in her heart for Dhruva as she knew her son will never get the throne.


One day when Dhruva was just 5 years old he went on to sit on his father's lap. Suruchi, the jealous queen, got enraged and shoved him away from Raja as she never wanted Raja to shower Dhruva with his fatherly affection.


Dhruva protested questioning his step mother "why can't i sit on my own father's lap?" A furious Suruchi berated him saying "only God can allow him that privilege. Go ask him"
RELIGION
Patrick Byrne
Patrick Byrne
@PatrickByrne
READ AND RETWEET AS THOUGH THE LIFE OF YOUR NATION DEPENDS ON IT. WHICH IT DOES. Citizens, I am going to add to the picture with more information. I am not going to let this pass while keeping information to myself. I am going to walk you through 2 narratives.

A printing shop in Michigan prints ballots for Delaware County, Pennsylvania and as Lancashire County, Pennsylvania (this is normal). But along with the ballots it prints on contract and delivers to those counties, it prints some ballots that get diverted to Bethpage, New York.

There, a boiler room of folks fill in "Biden" (often without even voting downballot). The ballots (which are forensically legitimate, given that they come from the same print shop as the good ballots, ) then get trucked into Pennsylvania and mailed. Hundreds of thousands.

We have all of that documented. Texts, statements, affidavits, everything.

We also know that this same ballot printing company (and other firms in the same family) also print for Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia.
POLITICS , LEGAL