Makueni County sets up toll-free emergency number

Makueni County residents will enjoy an automated toll free 24-hour Emergency Ambulance Service.

Residents requiring ambulance services for emergency cases will only need to dial 08 002 222 222 to be served within the shortest time possible.

The service, launched Thursday by deputy governor Adelina Mwau, is part of a Sh110 Million facelift of the county referral hospital to a modern health facility.

AMBULANCE SERVICE

According to the County Executive Member for Health Mulwa Mutava, the service will enable health workers to dispatch the ambulance vehicle close to the patients to rush them to the nearest health centre.

Mwau took a swipe at the Members of County Assembly for failing to pass the 2014/15 budget claiming their intention was to thwart Governor Kivutha Kibwana’s ambitious development agenda in a bid to hinder his 2017 re-election possibility.