Death toll rises to 5 as health crisis bites in Nyandarua
Interns from the Kenya Medical Training College take a rest at the JM Memorial Hospital in Olkalou, Nyandarua county on December 6, 2016. PHOTO | JOHN GITHINJI | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
- The gate at Nyahururu County Referral Hospital remained closed on Tuesday.
- By evening almost all patients had been transferred from the facility by their relatives to private hospitals while those relatives who could not afford to transfer their patients opted to take them home.
At least five patients have died in Laikipia County following the ongoing health workers nation wide strike.
According to a mortuary attendant at the Nyahururu County Referral Hospital mortuary one patient died at the county hospital while others were brought to the facility from other hospitals.
"Four bodies were of patients who had been transferred from our hospital by their relatives to other hospitals" said the attendant.
The gate at Nyahururu County Referral Hospital remained closed the entire day on Tuesday.
"Services at the maternity, casualty and the emergency unit have been paralysed," said Dr Lawrence Kamande, the hospital's medical superintendent.
By Tuesday evening almost all patients had been transferred from the facility by their relatives to private hospitals while those relatives who could not afford to transfer their patients opted to take them home.
