Health stakeholders in Homa Bay County have urged the government to install blood screening equipment in the county referral hospital to streamline blood transfusions.
The County Infections Control Coordinator James Okuthe noted that delays in accessing screened blood in health facilities hampered efforts to save lives during emergency cases requiring blood.
Okuthe said there is a need for the blood bank in Homa Bay to be facilitated to undertake screening to reduce time taken while waiting for the results from Kisumu.
He noted that counties in Nyanza and its environs take blood for screening to the Kisumu regional blood bank and wait for between 5-7days to get results.
