Medics told not to send away patients

VIHIGA Health executive Zilpa Andiva has warned medics against sending patients away claiming there are no drugs. Andiva said all medical facilities in the county have been supplied with enough medicine. “These complaints that patients are being sent away from public health facilities for lack of drugs is not going to be tolerated because the county made sure our hospitals have enough drugs,” she said. Andiva was speaking to the Star on the phone yesterday. She said most hospitals in the county are in need of ARVs because the stock supplied has been depleted. The Health executive said the...