Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA) has awarded Garissa County government with sophisticated medical equipment worth Sh2.5 million in an initiative to boost quality of health care services at the Garissa Referral Hospital.
Speaking during the handing over ceremony, IRA Chief Executive Officer Sammy Makove said that the four patient monitor equipment, the one oxygen concentration machine and an oxygen compressor plant would greatly assist in saving lives and improving the treatment capacity of the largest county referral hospital in the region.
Garissa hospital CEO Ahmed Dagane thanked IRA agency for their kind gesture, noting that the donations of the medical equipment would help alleviate the suffering of the many patients flocking the hospital.
He revealed that with the new equipment, health care services that were not offered would now be available, and that the hospital facility would eventually admit more patients.
Dagane also noted that the most important equipment that was missing was the oxygen compressor to be used in the theater oxygen plant, which also services the maternity and the wards.