Nairobi Women’s Hospital opens Covid-19 isolation centre in Kajiado
Friday, June 19, 2020 0:01
By KEVIN ROTICH
Nairobi Women’s Hospital in Mombasa.
PHOTO | KEVIN ODIT
The Nairobi Women’s Hospital has opened a 34-bed Covid-19 isolation and treatment centre in Ongata Rongai, boosting Kajiado County’s preparedness for the pandemic.
County health and sanitation chief officer Eddah Wakapa said the new facility provides extra bed space for the county at a time when hospitals bed spaces are running out in the county due to an increase in Covid-19 hospitalisations.
Through a statement, the Presidency said the national and county governments had set a target of 300 isolation beds for each county to deal with the rising cases of infections.
A recent study by the Kenya Medical Research Institute team shows the country urgently needs an additional 1,511 intensive care unit (ICU) beds and 1,609 ventilators to cater for a possible one million Covid-19 cases.
