AS SPECTRE OF SMOKING CIGARETTES GROWS IN AFRICA...

On page 29 of the mainstream English Tabloid, Daily Mail, September 3^rd 2015, was a gruesome photograph that attracted my attention. A skull and pieces of scattered skeletons. Human remains. Well, well, well.   Being shown grisly, hideous and gruesome images, these days, is as “normal” as having breakfast. Whether in blogs, You Tube or WhatsApp, we are “officially” desensitised with gory savageness. Nevertheless, the Daily Mail snapshot was macabre for a reason. Not aimed at glorifying human tragedy- like our internet- thanks God, most newspapers still upheld traditional restrain and etiquette in social shock and info.

MGANGA MKUU UINGEREZA AONYA SIHA YA AKINA MAMA INAVYOTUATHIRI SOTE

Mganga mkuu Uingereza, Profesa Sally Davies, (pichani juu ) ,  amesisitiza umuhimu wa afya ya akina mama kwa taifa zima. Katika waraka aliouchapisha siku chache zilizopita-  kubadili kabisa mustakabal wa wanawake -Profesa Sally Davies alitaja mambo sita kisera na kiserikali. Mganga huyu aliye kati ya wanawake wachache wenye nguvu sana Uingereza ( kufuatana na kura ya Radio BBC 4, mwaka juzi), kitaaluma hushughulika na  maradhi ya damu, yaani “haematology”... 

Mfano mzuri wa jinsi damu inavyoathiri maumbile na afya yetu ni kama UKIMWI au saratani ya damu (“leukemia”) iliyomuua mwasisi wa taifa, Mwalimu Nyerere, 1999.