Implement policies on disaster readiness

The dangers of not having a comprehensive disaster management plan came to the fore on Wednesday when a critical section of East and Central Africa’s largest referral hospital was gutted by fire.

The hospital’s top management may be breathing a sigh of relief most of the critical and expensive equipment in the electrocardiogram unit of the Kenyatta National Hospital were salvaged. But they should be more concerned about their state of unpreparedness in the face of what could have been an international disaster.