May of each year is the Mental Health Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness and understanding about mental health issues. Mental health awareness is critical because mental health is essential to our overall well- being and quality of life. Mental health encompasses our emotional, psychological, and social well-being, and it affects how we think, feel, and behave.
Early this year the ENT team at KUTRRH led by Dr Getachew Beza, a head and neck surgeon, performed the first total laryngectomy, which is an operation to remove the entire voice box for advanced cancers of the voice box.
Therapeutic duplication, Inappropriate dosing, Drug-Drug interactions, Drug-disease interaction; Do these narratives sound familiar in your practice? As a prescriber are you confident that medication that you prescribe is taken as per your instructions?
KUTRRH has yet again given a shot of life to a patient. The 40-year-old patient, a hit-and-run accident victim, suffered a neck fracture that paralyzed his lower and upper limbs. The patient was attended to at a local hospital which referred him to KUTRRH for further treatment.
KUTRRH (Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral & Research Hospital) offers a wide range of nuclear medicine, and diagnostic services, broadly classified as PET/CT and SPECT/CT. One of the SPECT CT services is the scanning of the skeletal system using 99m Technetium methylene diphosphonate (99m Tc MDP).





