By The Mountain Journal Team in Kerugoya
As Kenyans continue receiving Covid-19
vaccine, 11,068 people in Kirinyaga County have so far been vaccinated.
Health indicate that the recipients got the jab at the nine designated health
facilities across the county.
health workers, 1,724 teaching and non-teaching staff, 623 uniformed officers
and 6,705 among the general public who include those aged 58 years and above,
and religious leaders.
has vaccinated the highest number totaling to 3,336 followed by Kianyaga Sub County
Hospital with 1,714 recipients, Sagana Sub County hospital with 1,814, Kimbimbi
Sub County Hospital with 1,360 and Thiba Health Center registering 1,031.
Kerugoya Medical Center registered 640
recipients, Mt Kenya Hospital has had 396, while 407 and 370 people were
vaccinated at Mwea Medical Center and Mwea Mission Hospital respectively.
Covid-19 vaccine has urged all the health workers, the elderly and other
prioritized members of the public to ensure that they get the vaccine.
Kirinyaga residents to strictly adhere to the laid down Covid-19 prevention
measures which include wearing masks properly whenever in public, keeping
physical and social distance, avoiding crowded areas and washing hands as
required.
total of 549 Covid-19 cases since the outbreak of the pandemic, with 448 and 24
patients successfully recovering from home-based care and isolation centers
respectively.
undergoing treatment in isolation center while another 34 are recovering under
home based care. However the county has lost 11 patients to the disease, four of
them during the current wave.
strictly adhere to the laid down Covid-19 prevention guidelines in order to
keep the numbers down. She said that the
county has been keen in implementation of prevention measures as the first line
of defense against the virus whose spread has so far been kept under manageable
levels.
patients requiring admission in hospital has always remained minimal, the
county government has in place adequate isolation beds in case the numbers
rise. The county has placed 144 isolation beds in Kerugoya, Kimbimbi, Kianyaga
and Baricho hospitals.
Another 200 beds are awaiting the
completion of the upcoming Kerugoya Level Five Hospital where they will be
placed. The county also has eight ventilators stationed at Kerugoya County and
Referral Hospital isolation center.
set aside for the county’s health workers who might fall sick. However, none
has so far been admitted there even though 17 of them have contracted the
disease and recovered.
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