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Patients, medics banked on Equity during pandemic HEALTH & SCIENCE
ICU manager in PPE during the interview at the Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral & Research Hospital on April 9, 2021. [David Gichuru, Standard] Containing transmission of Covid-19 when an outbreak was reported in Kenya last year was uncertain. Even medics feared contracting the virus. The government was also thrown into confusion when the surge hit a second wave in June, 2020. The border town of Busia was in sharp focus, owing to widespread of the virus attributed to traffic snarl-ups of trucks and drivers stuck there, but mingling with locals. Covid 19 Time Series
Any positive Covid case only heightened fear among medics. There were inadequate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). ....