Dozens in hospital after consuming camel meat

Doctors attending to some of the sick at a makeshift facility in Kagwatatuk. [Standard]

Dozens of villagers in Kagwatatuk, Alale ward in Pokot North sub-county are recuperating at different makeshift health facilities after consuming infected camel meat.

According to Eunice Lorete, a nurse at Alale dispensary, the villagers consumed the meat at a festival on Monday and were rushed to the hospital after complaining of fever, diarrhoea, vomiting, and body aches.