The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) Secretary General Ouma Oluga has taken issue with the Kirinyaga county government over the recent pathetic state of the Kerugoya Referral Hospital.
The health facility landed on the spotlight last week over poor sanitation after patients raised alarm over an outbreak of diarrhoea and Hepatitis B alongside poor services.
This, in turn, landed Governor Anne Waiguru's government on the spot, resulting in her appointment of a task force to look into the issue and propose remedial actions.
However, Oluga now says that the situation was expected, claiming that the county has not been allocating any money for health facilities in its two consecutive previous budgets.
He claims that the county went ahead to fire all cleaners and is also irked by the task force's findings that only six workers are to blame for the situation.
According to Oluga, the situation is to blame on the county leadership and not the six whom, he said, are being used as sacred lambs.
"Kirinyaga County allocated ZERO shillings in their 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 Budget for Curative Health, fired all hospital cleaners but the finding by a taskforce and the medical board is that six workers are culpable and will face action. Scape Goating must be such a skill," he tweeted on Thursday.
However, Waiguru, in a tweet, has since said that the hospital is back in good shape, and announced the addition of workers and medical officers to serve both the facility and the patients.