15 million oxygen plant to be set up in kirinyaga

A 15-20 million oxygen plant is going to be put up in Kerugoya district hospital as a way of reducing buying gas cylinders that are expensive. According to medical superintendent at Kerugoya district hospital Gideon Mburu, the decision was reached after consultation and seeing that the hospital is buying many cylinders and that it had the capacity and also able in making its own oxygen. He also said that in a hospital ready oxygen is needed because there are many different cases that are referred in Kerugoya district hospital from the 84 dispensaries and 12 health centers. He said that oxygen is on high demand in many hospitals citing that sometimes there is no enough oxygen where their staff is forced to make impulse buying or even transferring patients to other hospitals where the commodity is being found. “Its is very challenging to take a patient who had been referred to your hospital to another hospital for lack of an essential commodity like oxygen” said Mburu. Mburu said that they want to make sure that every ward has a line for oxygen to enable the nurses’ work easier and also save patients lives. He added that they plan to start selling ones the plant is completed to other hospitals within and out of the county. Kerugoya district hospital has 28 doctors and 58 nurses serving a population of 572,032 persons. This is aimed at the plans that are underway of having a medical training college built in the county to enable training easier. ends.......