Plants cure hospital's oxygen shortage

Martin Nandwa, a Biomedical Engineer, demonstrates how the plant installed at the Kakamega County Teaching and Referral hospital works. [Nathan Ochunge, Standard]

Two oxygen plants recently installed at the Kakamega County Teaching and Referral Hospital at a cost of Sh31 million are producing more than 27,000 litres of oxygen hourly.

Since the commissioning of the plants, the number of critically ill patients who used to die at the facility due to lack of medical oxygen has gone down drastically.