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Most malnourished patients hail from Tiaty - MTRH official
Mar. 01, 2018, 12:30 am
By JOSEPH KANGOGO @kangogojk1
Kenya Red Cross staff donate relief food to hungry residents at Moinonin, Baringo North subcounty, on March 11 last year
The NGOs donated bags of maize, beans, uji mix and salt to feed over 3,000 residents at among other 144 villages Lodengo, Chepkararat, Kakabul, Chebelion and Kaisakat in Kolowa in East Pokot.
“We were targeting over 10,000 residents in the entire subcounty” Red Cross North Rift regional manager Michael Ayabei said, adding, “although our capacity may not be sufficient.”
Ayabei said Red Cross is also issuing some Sh3, 000 cash transfer fund to the hungry victims to afford their basic commodities.
“We are doing much we can to cushion the lives of the hungry population, although more is needed to be done,” Ayabei said, adding that the situation is as a result of long droughts and ongoing security operation.
He said the residents in these drought-ravaged localities cannot continue depending on relief handouts year in year out.
“The government must do something, be it sinking more boreholes, opening up pan dams and embracing irrigated agriculture to ensure constant supply of food among the communities throughout the year” he said, adding that insecurity has adversely affected development.
Since the beginning of this year, the residents have been left in destitution not knowing where to get their daily food after the last relief supplies donated by the government stopped three months ago.
The government issued some 200 bags of rice the hungry pokot community in Koloa on Monday last week, although this has turned out to be a drop in the sea.
Last year, the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) Assistant Director Finance Mathews Birgen distributed some 400 bags of maize through their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Most malnourished patients hail from Tiaty - MTRH official
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