Hospital among relics to give way as county transforms city

Kisumu Military Barracks for the colonial government which later was turned into Kisumu County Referral Hospital. The institution is said to have been established in 1900s when the Kenya-Uganda railway line was being built. [Kepher Otieno, Standard]

The British military spotted a strategic ground within Kisumu in early 1900, which they later turned into a barracks.

The Kenya Uganda Railways had just snaked its way into the lakeside city and the British needed a strategic location from which they could control the East African region.