The nightmare of manyattas serving as isolation centres
Community health volunteer Andrew Lekutar sensitises Lemeishoda and her children on Covid-19 preventive measures at Mabatini village, Archers Post on August 19.
In Samburu, functional quarantine centres are scarce.
Patients self-isolate in their manyattas, which lack basic health facilities to manage the deadly virus.
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the sorry state of health infrastructure in rural counties. A majority of governors claimed they had put in place measures to handle the pandemic, but things are different on the ground. Patients are going through hell to stay alive.
In Samburu, functional quarantine centres are scarce. Patients self-isolate in their manyattas, which lack basic health facilities to manage the deadly virus. In Shabaa area, these manyattas — made of mud, cow dung and plastic bags — act as quarantine centres for a population that is yet to embrace modernism.
