Kisumu Health executive Elizabeth Ogaja has revealed plans to make solar-powered stalls for traders in the lakeside city in bid to improve hygiene.
Ogaja lamented that traders had started building stalls on top of such drainage systems. She added that the county government was looking at proposals to have solar powered food stalls given to eatery owners to ensure that they meet required standards.
“The solar powered stalls will be standardised to make sure that all of them are of same size and quality. This will make it easier to pump in piped water to be used by the traders,” said Ogaja.
She further noted that the plans were part of a new county policy that her ministry and the county were working on, which will see many other projects launched in the area soon, adding that her office and that of the city manager had initiated consultations to see how food inspection can be kept up to standards.
She warned that the lack of sanitation was the possible reason that most health budgets were shooting up.
“The need to treat sanitation diseases has forced us as a county to ask for more funds yet we can save these monies for other development activities,” added Ogaja.