Public hospitals host killer germs, new survey warns

A patient at the Kisumu County hospital on February 5. Most patients remained unattended to following the nurses’ strike. [File]

The public health sector is largely responsible for much of patients’ suffering across the country, reports presented this week at a conference of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri), show.

Top researchers told of high levels of wrong drug prescriptions in public hospitals, lack of control of dangerous germs in health facilities and sale of dangerous medicines in chemists.