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Sh20m project for district hospital

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Published on Saturday, 07 July 2007 06:48
Congestion at Kisii District Hospital will ease after the completion of a Sh20 million expansion project, an official says. Dr. Thomas Ogaro, the medical officer of health, said Kilimanjaro Consultants have been awarded the tender for the project.

The hospital has experienced congestion, especially early this year, when a malaria epidemic ravaged Kisii and Nyamira districts.

Meanwhile, a German non-governmental organisation, DBWH, will put up a Sh12 million eye unit hospital. The project starts next October and will include an eye ward and a modern theater. A representative of the organisation, Dr. Ulrich Batz, said this on Sunday, when he led a team on a tour of the project site. He said funds had been approved by his organisation. The funds, said Dr. Batz, would be channelled through a local NGO, Salus Oculi, whose director, Mr Michael Ng'eno, was in the inspection team.

Mr Ng'eno said the eye treatment unit will serve more than seven million people from the neighbouring districts of Rachuonyo, Suba, Homa Bay, Migori, Trans Mara, Kuria, Nyamira, Gucha, Bomet and Kisii Central. He said the area lacked specialized eye treatment facilities. The hospital's eye specialist, Dr. Abunga Singombe, said there had been an increase of 90 per cent in eye diseases in the past two years.