Kisii Governor James Ongwae has challenged nurses and other health workers to be devoted and offer good service to their clients.
He was speaking on Friday at the funeral of the late county nurse, Mallen Kwamboka Makone at Suneka, Bomorenda Ward, Bonchari sub-county.
Ongwae praised Ms Makone as a hardworking civil servant who committed her energies towards helping Kisii County residents and beyond.
“I knew Mallen as a dedicated and hardworking civil servant who dedicated her life for the noble service of caring for the sick for 28 years," he said.
"For two decades, the late Mallen worked with devoutness and devotion. She was such a model of the devout temperament of the late Martha Teresa the nurse from Calcutta, India who gave her life for service."
Makone died on October 17, at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kisumu after illness.