Deeksha Gupta

  Fraud is one of the most retrogressive happenings in any sphere of life. Fraud affects all people directly or indirectly. The adverse effect of this in the healthcare industry cannot be over-emphasized. The main participants in fraud cases in healthcare include patients, healthcare service providers, suppliers of goods and services to the sector and brokers. In a nutshell “Fraud in Healthcare Kills”.   According to Jayesh Saini, healthcare fraud and corrupt practices ultimately affects the quality and quantity of services delivered, resources utilization, cost of services, time and human resources. In his opinion, this is one of the factors that have played a role in keeping cost of business to remain high and thus the high charges for service. Interestingly, from where he sits, as a consumer of services and an investor in healthcare, every one of the above participants in the sector blames all the others except themselves, making it sometimes difficult to solve the prob...

  For centuries, dogs have been referred to as man’s best friend. Over time, more and more animals are receiving a place of closeness with humans. While some people keep pets or seek to domestic more animals besides cats and dogs because they are beautiful, can serve security purposes studies show that pets and domesticated animals play a greater role than this. One of the main areas has been the emotional well-being of individuals. It has been observed that many people have better chances of handling emotional-provoking issues and recover faster from anxiety, depression, stress, or tension. Spending time playing with a pet or just getting to an animal orphanage provides a mental and emotional detox avenue. Many single/alone people have found solace and beaten loneliness through regular interactions with animals.   These were the observations and comments of Jayesh Saini of Nairobi as he explained why he supports various bodies that deal with animals including the Kenya So...

  World over, most healthcare systems focus treatment of diseases with little input in prevention and other pillars towards comprehensive health management. This has caused increase in deaths and health care costs continue increasing in ways that are an unsustainable rate. Without mitigation factors in place, this will lead to compromised quality through too little too late.   The culture of medical intervention (help because it has happened) must change as a priority to interception (stop before it happens) if this trend is to be reversed. The cost of preventive healthcare is far much lower than of intercepting when disease happens.   The question begs then, why there is such high mortality rates due to potentially preventable conditions. This is from the mindset that everyone knows what is good for them. Unfortunately, this is not the case for all people. There are those who take what they believe is good for them. Though it is assumed that everyone has the resp...

  There is a saying that necessity is the mother of creation and that it is in hard times that greatest innovations come to fore or the ones little appreciated gain recognition and adoption. The outbreak of COVID-19 has brought to the limelight the importance of non-physical contact health services delivery especially in Africa where the notion of E-Health has been shunned by many saying that it practicing medicine without being touched by physician is not medicine. Talking about E-health, Jayesh Saini notes this was an idea whose time for embrace had come and for acceptability COVID-19 happened. He said that E-health has provided very good measures to help mitigate the spread of the corona virus while assisting those affected or infected by the same. He furthermore pointed out that the pandemic has affected not just the healthcare sector but other sectors and has affected service delivery to people with other ailments, bringing great fear that is deterring people from seeking ...

Africa is considered the most profitable continent to do business, with great potential for diverse business due to the available resources. This is seen through the number of foreign investors that come to the continent for various business projects. This has led to many countries of Africa becoming more and more open to the rest of the world. Still, Africa has nations that are more economically stable than others. It hosts 21 of the 25 poorest countries globally, making just slightly less than 50% of the continent’s number of countries. With this kind of poverty level, even where healthcare is being considered a priority, it is difficult to meet the required standards of healthcare set by the governments and international bodies. For some of these nations, attaining the SDGs and the UHC goals is a pipe dream. Health infrastructure in these countries is limited. There are records of deaths from diseases that could have been prevented were the requisite healthcare infrastructure and re...

 Since 2009, every year on the 25th of September, the world celebrates World Pharmacist Day. The day was created by the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) Council at the World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Istanbul, Turkey in 2009.   Every year, the FIP has a theme for the celebration. This year, the theme is “Pharmacy: Always trusted for your health.” With so many different days set aside for different people groups or activities, it would be interesting to know who a pharmacist is and why there would be a theme talking about their work as trusted for people’s health. appreciating the pharmacy departments of hospitals and stand-alone chemists/pharmacies, Jayesh Saini says that this is a group of medics that have a very critical part to play in health service delivery where sometimes it can mean life or death. He pointed out that when a physician issues a prescription for medication to a patient, it is taken to the pharmacist to dispens...

 The COVID-19 pandemic has without a doubt become one of the greatest teachers of our times globally and at local levels that working together yields better returns on efforts put in.   Whereas in the past it has been each health service provider for themselves, collaboration amongst providers has been key in averting deaths and worsening of health conditions. Observing the situation in Kenya, Jayesh Saini, a Kenyan national says that hospitals were reaching out to each for supplies such as oxygen, blood, antibiotics, masks, gloves, and even ICU beds. He pointed out how appeals on social media or other mediums of communication were acted upon with such solidarity, all aimed at saving lives.   Kenyans are known as resilient people who put their differences aside in times of calamity and during this COVID-19 pandemic has been on another level. Individuals and organisations have come out in large numbers to donate blood. For-profit organisations have kept aside their...