By LILLIAN MUTAVIMore by this AuthorThe Nairobi County government has started the process of relocating over 20,000 hawkers from Eastleigh Market to occupy the stalled Pumwani hospital maternity Nyayo Wards. The Wards, with a 300-bed capacity, were to be refurbished at Sh544 million by the Ministry of Health in January. However the county health executive Bernard Muia said that the department of health had not been involved in the decision. Once the wards are completed they are meant to ease congestion at the maternity hospital besides housing a trauma centre. Speaking on phone the Eastleigh Businesses District Association chairperson Ibrahim Hussein urged the hawkers to accept the alternative space.

Source: Daily Nation October 27, 2016 10:21 UTC