Meria
Elder Lister
Five Kenyan Governors Install ICU Beds In Their Private Homes As COVID-19 Cases Continue To Surge
According to a local paper, up to five Kenyan governors [two from the Coast region, another two from the Nyanza region and one from upper Eastern Kenya] and a prominent businessman-cum-politician from the Rift Valley region are among those who have installed state-of-the-art
ICU facilities at their private homes.
One of the five governors is believed to have had a pre-existing medical condition while the two others head counties which were severely hit by the coronavirus pandemic in April and May, which might explain why they rushed to install the costly machines in their houses.
A worker at the private firm through which the moneyed politicians sourced and installed the ICU facilities while speaking to the paper admitted that they supplied medical gas systems, oxygen cylinders, dry air, ventilators and patient monitors, worth up to over Sh10 million each.
The governors have also made arrangements to have a team of private doctors and nurses on standby in case any of their friends and family contract the disease, which is a prerequisite.
The ICU beds and equipment, the source from the firm which has also supplied the equipment to four counties went on to reveal, were imported from Italy and China.
According to a local paper, up to five Kenyan governors [two from the Coast region, another two from the Nyanza region and one from upper Eastern Kenya] and a prominent businessman-cum-politician from the Rift Valley region are among those who have installed state-of-the-art
ICU facilities at their private homes.
One of the five governors is believed to have had a pre-existing medical condition while the two others head counties which were severely hit by the coronavirus pandemic in April and May, which might explain why they rushed to install the costly machines in their houses.
A worker at the private firm through which the moneyed politicians sourced and installed the ICU facilities while speaking to the paper admitted that they supplied medical gas systems, oxygen cylinders, dry air, ventilators and patient monitors, worth up to over Sh10 million each.
The governors have also made arrangements to have a team of private doctors and nurses on standby in case any of their friends and family contract the disease, which is a prerequisite.
The ICU beds and equipment, the source from the firm which has also supplied the equipment to four counties went on to reveal, were imported from Italy and China.
