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Uasin Gishu County hospital receives shot in the arm

Uasin Gishu Governor Jackson Mandago and UAP Old Mutual CEO Peter Mwangi officially open the refurbished Uasin Gishu County Hospital.

It's not a secret that public hospitals are struggling across Kenya and that their functions mostly depends on the work of Good Samaritans and philanthropists.

For the last 10 years' health professionals and patients at the Uasin Gishu County hospital have been running their sweat and sneezing occasioned by the dust hanging over the leaking and sagging roof at the hospital. So much so that at the height of the challenges, male and female patients were forced to share a single smelly pit latrine.

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