Health workers attend to a patient recuperating from Covid-19 at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital in Kisumu County on June 10, 2021. Kisumu County has recently experienced a surge in Covid-19 cases with isolation centers and mortuaries filled to capacity.
There is also a lot to be hopeful about Kisumu’s current battle with Covid-19.
It has jolted Governor Anyang’ Nyong’o’s government into action.
The first case of Covid-19 in my Kokello village in Kajulu East was confirmed last week. The patient, a woman in her 50s, tested positive for the coronavirus at Gita Hospital, about 5km off the Mamboleo-Muhoroni Road.
She had visited the nearby hospital complaining about ‘some small malaria’, as my people tend to describe every other disease presenting fever and other malaria-like symptoms. News of a patient next door will no doubt entrench the Covid-19 scare among the village folks I reported in this column last Sunday.
