Medics so scared, turn away ill man

The level of Bungoma County’s preparedness to handle Covid-19 was put to the test yesterday when all public health facilities rejected a patient with coronavirus-like symptoms.

The patient had to be transferred to Nairobi’s Mbagathi Hospital. The 19-year-old patient, who had checked in at the Lifecare Hospital in Bungoma town on Monday night, had travelled from Switzerland through Dubai before taking a flight from JKIA to Kisumu. From Kisumu, the patient took a matatu to his home in Mumias East Sub-county, where he started coughing and sneezing and had high fever.