Road to death: Mortuaries along city highways, but no casualty clinics

If your car stalls on a Nairobi road at night, you are likely to become dead meat

In the unfortunate event that you survive a horrific car crash near the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) at noon, chances of you dying in a crippling traffic jam as an ambulance driver desperately fights to evacuate you to Nairobi West Hospital, Kenyatta National Hospital or The Mater Hospital are pretty high.

Indeed, along the entire length of the Kenyan section of the Northern Corridor from Mombasa to Malaba, which claims thousands of lives annually, there is no   trauma centre with facilities and professional personnel to rapidly reverse the fortunes of an accident or gunshot victim. Death, it seems, is almost inevitable.