ICU, renal units closed due to equipment failure, says worker

Nyeri Town MP Esther Murugi speaks to Journalists after opening the Muruguru Police post housing units built at a cost of Sh4.5 million from the County Development Fund (CDF). The MP said she will move a motion in parliament to restrain the county government from meddling in marketing of local coffee. [PHOTO: MURIMI MWANGI/STANDARD]

Medics manning the Intensive Care and Renal Units at the Nyeri county referral hospital are not in Italy for training as had been alleged by the local government, it has emerged.

On Tuesday, there was outrage among MPs even as the County Health Director Nelson Muriu held an emergency meeting with members of staff at the hospital and assured them that "things would improve soonest".