{"id":14241,"date":"2020-09-12T17:28:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T17:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=14241"},"modified":"2020-09-12T17:29:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T17:29:04","slug":"seven-counties-have-met-300-bed-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/seven-counties-have-met-300-bed-demand","title":{"rendered":"Seven counties have met 300-bed demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:\u00a0Graham Kajilwa\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Only seven counties have attained the 300 isolation bed capacity for Covid-19 preparedness, raising questions on how the Sh5 billion allocated for the exercise was utilised.<\/p>\n<p>Even as new cases of infection continue to reduce, with 190 reported yesterday, a report dated August 6, which assessed the level of preparedness, shows Garissa, Nairobi, Machakos, Mandera, Mombasa, Kakamega and Makueni are the only counties to have achieved the 300-bed capacity requirement.<\/p>\n<p>Nairobi leads with 1,085 beds, followed by Mombasa (404), Machakos(371), Mandera (307), Makueni (312), Garissa (310), and Kakamega at 301.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest Covid-19 figures,\u00a0Nairobi leads with 65 cases, followed by Kitui at 27, Mombasa, 16, Uasin Gishu, 13, and Embu, 10. The rest of the 17 counties reported less than a dozen cases.\u00a0The government yesterday announced that four more patients succumbed to the disease, raising the fatalities to 616.<\/p>\n<p>The report on preparedness is based on an assessment of 45 counties, and in total, there were 7,411 isolation beds, with an additional 312 for the intensive care unit.\u00a0\u201cOut of 45 counties so far assessed, 28 per cent have a bed capacity of over 200, and only 15 per cent currently meet the minimum 300-bed capacity,\u201d reads the report prepared by the Ministry of Health Technical Assistance Team on Covid-19.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-group readmore my-3\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report states that there are several counties with ongoing construction works to increase their health infrastructure to meet the minimum requirements within the short term (30 days) and medium to long term (90 days).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to the health facility isolation beds, an additional bed capacity of 4,015 isolation beds have also been identified from non-health facilities. This would cumulatively avail a bed capacity of 11,738 isolation beds for the pandemic,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n<p>The report also found the counties to have inadequate staff.\u00a0For example, 86 per cent of the facilities assessed in the counties do not have anaesthesiologists while 78 per cent have no critical care officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will affect the level of healthcare services,\u201d it reads. The team visited 263 facilities, of which 64 per cent were Level Four, which should be specialised to handle Covid-19 cases.\u00a0While oxygen was relatively available via cylinders, laboratory testing was not accessible for 54 per cent of the facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:\u00a0Graham Kajilwa\u00a0 AfricaPress-Kenya: Only seven counties have attained the 300 isolation bed capacity for Covid-19 preparedness, raising questions on how the Sh5 billion allocated for the exercise was utilised. Even as new cases of infection continue to reduce, with 190 reported yesterday, a report dated August 6, which assessed the level of preparedness, shows Garissa, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":14242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,2111,8],"tags":[939,1539,382],"class_list":["post-14241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-coronavirus-in-kenya","category-homepage-english","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-nairobi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Seven counties have met 300-bed demand - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Only seven counties have attained the 300 isolation bed capacity for Covid-19 preparedness, raising questions on how the Sh5 billion\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/seven-counties-have-met-300-bed-demand\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seven counties have met 300-bed demand\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Only seven counties have attained the 300 isolation bed capacity for Covid-19 preparedness, raising questions on how the Sh5 billion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/seven-counties-have-met-300-bed-demand\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-12T17:28:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-09-12T17:29:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/seven_counties_have_5f5bd010cc57e.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/seven-counties-have-met-300-bed-demand#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/seven-counties-have-met-300-bed-demand\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Seven counties have met 300-bed demand\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-12T17:28:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-09-12T17:29:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/seven-counties-have-met-300-bed-demand\"},\"wordCount\":350,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/seven-counties-have-met-300-bed-demand#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/seven_counties_have_5f5bd010cc57e.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Coronavirus\",\"COVID-19\",\"Nairobi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"Coronavirus in kenya\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/seven-counties-have-met-300-bed-demand#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/seven-counties-have-met-300-bed-demand\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/seven-counties-have-met-300-bed-demand\",\"name\":\"Seven counties have met 300-bed demand - 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