By Murigi Ndung’u
The venue of the camp at a different angle is
purely military. Everything is military including the vehicles, the camping
paraphernalia and even the clothing of the campers.
A group of UK soldiers and groundsmen have
been holding a medical camp at Lariak secondary school for the past one week.
The seventeen doctors and medical practitioners from UK and Kenya have been
attending to residents of the area who are suffering from various ailments.
This is in conjunction with the Kenya
Defense Forces (KDF) that has provided personnel and transport means. This
includes KDF drivers and guides.
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| Captain Mike at Lariak Day Secondary |
According to Captain Mike, the sole
reason they visited was nothing less than a high ovation offered by the
ministry of health to the marginalized areas of Kenya, giving the residents of Lariak
region a beneficiary badge.
Though they had intended to benefit a
thousand plus people, this encountered a hurdle mainly because the residents
were not well aware of their holding a medical camp. The group managed to
attend to 250 patients
“The people’s tendency of having a
phobia where the police are involved coupled by the fact that not many knew of
our presence is our main drawback to our effective medical expectations.” Said Captain
Mike.
The visitors particularly targeted
the less medically efficient that ranges from poor medical facilities to less
medical human resources. This they are doing in rounds from one area to another
and their coming back is attached to the success they will encounter.
The advice to the locals is
persistence in their quest for good health care and be ready to advocate for
diseases prevention, which is better than cure.
The group is now headed to Ol Moran where
they are set to spend a whole week there.
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