Invest in more hospital beds, warns Kemri

Kenyatta University students during the launch of Tibavent Prototype Ventilator at the Nairobi campus on April 11, 2020. The country needs at least 1,600 ventilators. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Kenya urgently needs an additional 1,511 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds and 1,609 ventilators to care for a possible one million Covid-19 cases.

Ventilators help supply oxygen to the lungs while treating patients for severe coronavirus inside ICUs.