Nakuru County plans to expand the trauma centre at Naivasha Sub County Hospital to cater for large number of patients admitted at the facility.
Governor Kinuthia Mbugua said there was an urgent need to expand the facility and increase its bed capacity after it emerged that patients were sharing wards set aside for trauma patients.
“The trauma centre at the hospital is crowded to an extent that patients are forced to share beds. It is for this reason that the county government is hastening plans to expand the already overstretched facility to ease the congestion,” said Mbugua.
The governor was addressing the press at the hospital after an extensive tour of the facility led by the hospital’s medical superintendent, Joseph Mburu.
At the same time the governor added that an accident ward would soon be opened at the hospital to allow for easy management of victims requiring emergencies.
On the issue of recent cholera outbreak in the county Mbugua said only seven cases were treated at the hospital out of which four were discharged and three are still undergoing treatment, in stable condition.
“Only one family consisting of a father and his two children are still admitted at the hospital but they are out of danger,” he said.