Hospital on the Spot for Discharging Raw Waste in Rivers

Kisii Senator Richard Onyonka has called on the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) to take action against a hospital in Kisii accused of releasing raw human waste into streams used by local people for domestic water supplies.
In a statement on Tuesday August 5, the senator said that residents had shared videos and testimonies showing the hospital, located in the Sameta Mokwerero ward of the Bobasi constituency, discharging raw sewage into nearby rivers.
According to Onyonka, this practice has raised public health concerns, with residents living near the hospital reporting outbreaks of waterborne diseases.
He further claimed that, despite efforts by residents to table their complaints to the hospital management,police officers had often been used to intimidate and silencethem.