{"id":6362,"date":"2019-11-05T09:12:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T06:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6362"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:39","slug":"kenya-ranked-top-in-emergency-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/05\/kenya-ranked-top-in-emergency-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Ranked Top In Emergency Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Rawlings Otini <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya has beaten several African countries to emerge second\nin its preparedness to respond to deliberate or accidental national health\nthreats with the potential to wipe out humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the Global Health Security index ranked Kenya at 55\nout of 195 in the analysis of global health capabilities on a country by\ncountry basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The index assesses factors critical to dealing with threats, such as robust health systems, adherence to global norms, and political and security risks, including public confidence in the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The index is a project of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and\nthe Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 100 researchers spent a year collecting and\nvalidating the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHealth security is a collective responsibility,\u201d said Beth\nCameron, of the Nuclear Threat Initiative. \u201cCountries need to know how prepared\nthey are. And they need to know how prepared their neighbours are. Otherwise\nwe\u2019ll never improve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/health\/article\/2001348085\/kenya-ranked-top-in-emergency-care\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rawlings Otini Kenya has beaten several African countries to emerge second in its preparedness to respond to deliberate or accidental national health threats with the potential to wipe out&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}