Nyamira County’s health and sanitation chief officer Douglas Bosire has come out to defend the department over allegations that the county health facilities lacked drugs.
This comes after a number of complaints from the general public that the county referral hospital had no drugs, prompting the patients to purchase the same from the chemists across the road.
Addressing the press in his office on Friday, Bosire said that the facilities are not lacking the essential commodity, adding that all hospitals across the nation were affected during the month of January during the El Nino rains.
“I want to assure the public that our hospitals have enough drugs and that no patient should be referred to purchase any kind of drug from outside the facility. We only experienced a slight shortage of the commodities in January after the government supplied them to the areas affected by the December El Nino rains,” Bosire said.
He said that those spreading the rumours were enemies of devolution who are after tainting the image of the county government.
The County’s health department was in the public limelight last year after it was alleged that they constructed a Sh7 million gate.