Teacher’s strike renders blood banks dry in Eastern Kenya

Rev Stephen Njoroge of Deliverance Church of Kenya (right) and Embu County Director of Medical Services Dr Philip Masaulo donate blood during a medical camp at Deliverance Church, Embu town on September 26, 2015. The on-going teacher’s strike has occasioned blood shortage at the Embu regional blood transfusion centre.

KENYA: The on-going teacher's strike has occasioned a blood shortage at the Embu Regional Blood Transfusion Centre.

County Health Executive Pauline Njagi said the centre has been unable to collect blood from the students who form the bulk of donors since they are not in schools.