Vihiga county Governor Wilber Ottichilo during the official unveiling of the Oxygen plant at Vihiga County Referral Hospital on May 20, 2021. [Benjamin Sakwa,Standard]Public hospitals in the Western region are grappling with the scarcity of oxygen and testing kits. Vihiga County has been struggling to fix a power hitch that stalled operations of an oxygen plant at Mbale Referral Hospital about two weeks ago. Governor Wilbur Ottichilo’s administration procured an oxygen plant with capacity to generate 300 litres of oxygen per minute, but the project ran into headwinds following power supply challenges. By Wednesday, Vihiga County Referral Hospital had four patients on oxygen support.

Source: Standard Digital July 23, 2021 21:00 UTC