Senators yesterday called on the Treasury to release Sh5 billion counties’ health cash pending from last last financial year to go towards combating Ebola and other outbreaks. The Senate Health Committee members addressed journalists at the Parliament buildings. The lawmakers noted that Monday’s incident in which a patient suspected to have contracted Ebola found his way to Kericho shows the government isn’t prepared to handle the disease. “How can a patient move from the boarder in Malaba where the screening was done and manage to reach Kericho? That shows that we are not prepared as a country to deal with this disease,” committee chairman and Trans Nzoia Senator Michael Mbito said.

Source: The Star June 19, 2019 02:22 UTC