Fire guts Tenwek Hospital in Bomet

Tenwek Mission Hospital in Bomet County on fire on February 9, 2018. PHOTO | COURTESY

Patients are being evacuated from wards at Tenwek Mission Hospital as fire ravages several facilities.

Mr Aaron Sigilai, a witness who spoke to Nation said: "Patients in critical conditions and some with infants are being wheeled out of the wards. They are being evacuated to safety."

The fire, whose cause is yet to be established, is said to have started at the facility's kitchen.

Fire fighters are being sought.