Embattled Wajir Governor, Mohamed Abdi Mohamud, is on the spot after services at the Wajir County Referral Hospital were paralyzed.
Healthcare workers who spoke to journalists revealed that medics had to attend to patients using torches as their sources of light following a prolonged power blackout that has paralyzed services.
According to the hospital management, the healthcare facility in Wajir is in a dilapidated state, and doctors cannot carry on with their duties due to a lack of power and water.
The situation exposed the county government with healthcare workers revealing that a number of newborn babies have died due to the poor state of the facility.
The hospital Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr. Bashir Mohamed, stated that the electricity problem in the hospital was also being experienced in other county offices but the hospital had an operational generator.
However, doctors who spoke to journalists contradicted his statement, revealing that the generator in question was non-functional, further disclosing that laboratories in the hospital had to be shut down due to a lack of reagents and other essential medical supplies.
The healthcare workers vowed to take industrial action and down their tools until the county government heeds to their calls and finds a solution to salvage the already ugly situation that has put thousands of lives at risk.
When the report was aired on Citizen TV, Kenyans on social media called out the governor for neglecting the hospital, endangering the lives of the electorate.
This comes even as reports on local dailies indicated that cancer patients seeking treatment at the Kenyatta National Hospital were being forced to seek radiotherapy services from private facilities after the primary machine broke down.
Before the pandemic, the machine was serving 200 patients daily but it currently serves 100 people.
The low patient intake is due to the malfunctioning of the machines at KNH following the breakage that forced health givers to extend the number of minutes taken on a single patient.
KNH has not issued a statement to explain the breakage of the machine and the low number of patients that it is currently serving.
