LAKE ZONE: Why local officials need to take the lead on community health

>The main opposition party, Chadema, has provided eight motorbikes, worth Sh16 million to secretaries of all constituencies in Mara Region to facilitate their transport when coordinating party activities.

>In a bizzare incident here, Bukombe MP,  Prof Kulikoyela Kahigi  (Chadema), is alleged to have slapped local government election supervisors at Bwenda polling station, accusing them of plotting to rig votes.

>Health sector stakeholders in Mara Region have blamed the ministry of Health and Social Welfare for supplying hospitals with tri-cycles (bajajs) as ambulances, saying they were not appropriate in their areas which are characterised by poor infrastructure.

>The registration of voters for the forthcoming local government elections scheduled for December 14 this year is poor.

>Marie Stopes Tanzania (MST), the country’s largest specialist provider of reproductive health services, has launched a new health facility at Nyegezi in Nyamagana District, Mwanza Region, which will expand health services including family planning, youth friendly services as well as cervical cancer screening and treatment.

>Brutal killings of elderly people have been reported in the Lake Zone ahead of the festive season, The Citizen has learnt.

The Philips Community Life Center provides crucial access to health care and services through an innovative community hub

Royal Philips (AEX: PHIA, NYSE: PHG) (http://www.philips.com) has opened its first Community Life Center in Kenya, an integrated solution for primary health care and service facilities that provides community development from a health care, lighting and healthy living perspective. Developed by the Philips Africa Innovation Hub (http://goo.gl/2bnujk) and introduced in...

 Prof Japhet Killewo, a medical doctor and Epidemiologist from Muhimbili University, speaks to experts who convened in Dar es Salaam to share research findings and discuss meaningful policies to address maternal and newborn health in Tanzania. The third year dissemination workshop was sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and organized by partners within the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Muhimbili University, Johns Hopkins University and...

Kagera. Local residents are asking the government to speed up the implementation of a project to hook up Lake and Central Zones to a safe water reservoir at Lake Victoria.