Four people in Kiambu County have succumbed to alcohol withdrawal related complications following crackdown on illicit brews in the county.
Speaking in Thika on Thursday after destroying illegal liquour at the Kang'oki dumpsite Governor Wiliam Kabogo said that the dead are among the 14 people who had been admitted at Thika Level Five Hospital, Tigoni, Ruiru and Kiambu hospitals.
The governor has appealed to Kiambu families with such patients to the 13 rehabilitation centres in all level 4 and 5 health facilities in the county.
"These are our brothers and sisters. Let us not leave them to die at home or at the roadsides when we have set up wards to help them," he stressed..
Thika Level Five Hospital Chief Superintendent Andrew Toro confirmed that two deaths occurred in the hospital saying the deceased were brought in a dire situation.
"The other two are responding well to treatment and it is free. The county government is catering for everything", Toro said.
Toro added that two other patients were refered to Gatundu Level Four Hospital on the same day to be closer to their homes while another one was refered to Igegania hospital in Gatundu North.
In a press release by Dr. Jonah Manjari Mwangi, Kiambu CeC for Health Facilities and Services, the county government has established 13 rehabilitation centres that are accessible at any time of the day.
"The crackdown has left many alcoholics suffering from withdrawal symptoms and others still trying to access the banned products which we recognize in the county and as the Public Health Department," the press release read.