Three people admitted at Kakamega hospital for drinking sanitizer

Coronavirus Sanitizer

Three people were admitted to Kakamega Hospital for drinking concentrated sanitiser. The trio thought its a medicine to be administered. They said, the bottles were given to them but could not understand the directions.


Mr Elias Onoka, Mr Chris Emonyi and Crisantus Musonye alleged to have drunk the Sanitizers after failing to understand their usage. They thought it was a drug to prevent them from contracting coronavirus.


The Government, however, has insisted that sanitisers are only for external use(Handwash). The Ministry of Health has urged the county government to sensitize on the coronavirus and methods of protecting the family.


The Ministry maintained that anybody who has the symptoms should immediately seek medical advice and self-quarantine. Anybody that will not self-quarantine despite possing the symptoms is reported to the police.