Under the scorching Nairobi sun, medical students joined other 30 students from different campuses of the University of Nairobi (UoN), walking shoulder to shoulder through Ngong’ Road, Ralph Bunche, Valley Road, Kenyatta Avenue, Nyerere and Mamlaka streets, with one purpose: to clean the roads from plastics and create awareness about waste management and its health impacts.

Dr. Diana Marangu, a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Nairobi, is leading groundbreaking research aimed at uncovering hidden genetic causes of recurrent childhood pneumonia in Kenya.

Her work focuses on conditions such as inborn errors of immunity, primary ciliary dyskinesia, and cystic fibrosis conditions that often go undiagnosed but can lead to severe and lasting lung damage in children.

Dry Eye Disease (DED) is a significant public health concern not only Kenya but on a global reach and this calls for stringent measures to be taken to manage and treat it.