Mwobobia's Roundup

  I was conflicted on whether to respond to this headline or ignore it...but the rising suicide rate amongst young doctors (mostly medical officers) is a concern... but why the Medical Officers? who are Medical Officers? Medical Officers are people who have studied Medicine as an undergrad degree at the university, the degree is abbreviated as MBChB or MBBS or MD. In Kenya it is MBChB. This degree is a 'prestigious' course not for academically average Joes, it is for the top cream in academics the A and A- students. But if you have the money (to pursue Medicine, Pharmacy or Dental Surgery at the university as a parallel student, you will need to pay at least 500k/ year as fees!) you can enroll with a B in KCSE or with a credit pass in a healthcare diploma course...but you must have good cluster scores. MBChB is 6+1 training I.E you study in class for 6 years and go on 1 year of compulsory training at hospitals known as internship. During internship the government posts interns ...

DIABETES: FACTS vs MYTHS Article by Dr Gilford Mutwiri,a board certified Internal Medicine specialist at Consolata Nkubu Teaching & Referal Hospital '' The management of diabetes mellitus(DM) is marred by deeply rooted beliefs, practices and misconceptions. So entrenched are they that it’s often mentally fatiguing to engage the affected . Often, you encounter people with diabetes who are shocked that they are unwell. To them, they simply feel nothing. That they even don’t know what they are supposed to feel is equally worrying. On this sole basis, they vehemently oppose the diagnosis and seek multiple opinions. Currently, out of the four criteria used in the diagnosis of DM, only one requires the presence of symptoms. It therefore possible to have DM without symptoms. It’s also true that the absence of symptoms doesn’t mean no harm is happening. To avoid such shockers, it is crucial that one adopts a screening approach. The traditional daily monitoring of fasting blood suga...

  The general purpose of education, the purpose of education in Kenya, and how it has changed over time. What is Education Education is a total process by which human abilities and behaviors are developed (Ndaloh et al, 2009). This is done through imparting appropriate knowledge, skills, and attitudes in the learners to enable their awareness, appreciation and preservation of their cultural heritage and also their creativity in modifying and even shaping this culture for their benefit and that of their society (Mwaka et al., 2013). What is The Purpose of Education? The purpose of education is the creation of a compassionate and creative student who will help develop and sustain a just society where all individuals are able to live happy, fulfilled lives — as free from pain and suffering as possible (Roberts 2020). Education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more ef...

  LESSONS FOR KENYA FROM THE ETHIOPIAN WAR: Ethiopia is crumbling before our very eyes, the reason are spillovers from historical injustices since the days of the ethiopian emperor Menelik II in the 1880s he Amharanized the country which as an idea that many non-Amhara tribes didn't like, infact he forcibly took Oromo land and gave it to the Amhara- the capital of Ethiopia sits on Oromo land. The autocratic Emperor Haile Selassie made things worse with his ineptitude and support for slavery and feudalism by his ''shum shir'' policy in the 1970s which demanded hefty taxes from peasants, infact in 1943, 1963 and 1970 the Tigreans, the Somali and Oromo/Borana took up arms against Haile Sellasie to resist the exploitative and dehumanizing ''shum shir'' policy. Col Mengistu, Meles Zenawi, Haile Mariam Desalegn and Dr Abiy has the oportunity to fix gross inequalities and solder Ethiopia..but for some reason these men failed to heal their country, now this ...

THE SUBJUGATION OF THE MERU PEOPLE OF KENYA : The tactic that was used to subdue and colonize the Ngââ people in Meru was unique. The Ngââ people are the tribe that inhabited and still lives in Meru(Meru isn't the name of a tribe but the Maasai name for the region that was forested around Mt Kenya). The Ngââ(The Amîîrû) were warlike and jealously guarded their territory. They pushed back the Somalis and Borana and held back the Samburu and Maasai peoples. Any incursion to their lands, whether deliberate or accidental, was met with fierce resistance for centuries (under the democratic theocracy of the famed Njûrî Nçêêkê council of elders) the militarized Meru nation prospered in isolation. It successfully beat off the Islamic-Arab slave traders along with their Agikûyû and Akamba porters, thus no single fell prey to the Ma'afa(Indian Ocean slave trade). The Europeans had subdued the Agikûyû, the Akamba, the Aembu and their next stop was the Amîîrû. The British faced stiff resist...

  FACTS ABOUT PENISES : I have delayed the publishing of this article by a week...but today is the day it drops, my inbox is bursting at the seams with fans reminding me not to emulate UhuRuto in making promises they cannot meet...our kids are still waiting for the laptops. So today's write up is on penises, these are anterior projections that make women leave their parents' houses, these are projections that make Eve show God the middle finger in Eden...so penises are a big deal. The largest human penis for the longest time belonged to the actor Jonah Falcon, his wood is 13.5 inches long.....but Roberto Cabrera's 18.9 inch penis has broken his record!.....we should note that the average human penis is 5 inches long. The Argentine lake duck has the longest penis in birds, it has a penis that is on average 17 inches long!!!. Sharks, alligators, crocodiles and lizards have two penises. In humans we know this condition as diphallia, it is a genetic defect that affects 5 millio...

  PATHOGENS & GENOCIDE . The main reason non-white people are apprehensive and have vaccine phobia and lethargy is because of the atrocities these non-white races have suffered at the hands of the big pharma and the military-industrial complex. - They deliberately infected 600 blacks with syphilis (Between 1932 to 1943) in the guise of being provided with 'free healthcare'- this was the infamous Tuskegee Experiment. In 1997 Pres Clinton issued a formal apology for this genocidal act on behalf of the US government. Read more here....... https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm - The same doctors who were part of the Tuskegee 'Experiment' were contracted to infect Guatemalans with Syphilis between 1946 to 1948, they infected 5128 Guatemalan Native Indians- in the infamous Guatemalan Syphilis Experiment, this experiment involved children mostly orphans, as well as low cadre adults in the civil service. In 2010 Pres Obama issued a formal apology for this atrocity on b...