Kenya’s next public health crisis is hiding inside our buildings

 Patients at the waiting bench at Dagoretti Sub County Hospital Mutuini on January 31, 2025. 

Photo credit: Wilfred Nyangaresi | Nation Media Group

Every day, millions of Kenyans wake up and step into buildings that quietly shape their health; offices with sealed windows, schools with poor ventilation, homes where cooking smoke lingers long after meals are prepared and hospitals that heal illness but ignore wellbeing.

We rarely speak about it, yet we spend nearly 90 percent of our lives indoors. The truth is uncomfortable but necessary; our buildings are becoming a public health issue.

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