 Aloha. Thank you so much for tuning in to Y254 TV. It's the 23rd of March 2021. I trust you have been well. Glad you could be part of us this Tuesday. A very good evening to you. My name is Dereva Hillary. Welcome to the broadcast. We begin from the education sector. Education Cabinet Secretary, Professor George Magua, has urged all stakeholders involved in the ongoing KCP examination to lower the agad, Professor Magua, who was speaking in Machakus Town when he witnessed the opening of the examination container in Machakus Town as the education officials and the provincial administration to work together to ensure the success of the examination accesses. Magua expressed concerns over the lack of enough police officers to guard examination centres and told the police commanders across the country to ensure every centre gets to policemen. He also added that the government through the education ministry had set aside funds to cater for the security personnel maning all schools. The education seers was accompanied by top security and education officials in Machakus County, led by Machakus County Commissioner Frederick Ndunga and County Education Director Shamsa Muhammad. The teachers were all here. Like this morning they are carrying two exams one for morning, one for late morning. So as one exam is being done, that the policy framework in order for us to maintain the integrity of these examinations has been for the past four years and this been the fifth year that each centre manager must have two officers. One of the officers sits throughout the examinations. We have been working together for the past four years to ensure the safety of the children, to ensure the safety of the children, to ensure the safety of the children, to ensure the safety of the children. We have had coordinators in NEC who are receiving information from all over the country that in case there is a challenge is being brought to us and we are able to address it in a very seamless manner. All of them are brought in. Let's all support them and let's be their mentor. A mentor you don't have to meet somebody, they can just see you, what you do and they want to follow you and we coach and become role models. There will be the future. We need to ensure we protect them and ensure that whatever they are doing is being done in a very cohesive environment. We have been able to deploy our security mechanism and apparatus both monitoring and the physical so that we make sure that every part of this region, every centre is well secured. And I can assure you from where we sit up to this moment we have no security challenges and we are going to make sure during the exam period even as we start the KCSE from Thursday up to the next three to four weeks we will make sure that we deploy adequately and ensure that the exam is well secured. In other news, Busea County Government has installed 15 million shillings oxygen manufacturing plant at the Busea referral hospital the plant funded by the World Bank through the Kenya Devolution Support Program was commissioned by Busea Governor Sospita Ojamong. The project is aimed at saving the lives of patients undergoing major surgeries who are those with breathing difficulties and intensive care unit in need of oxygen. This comes after the County Government announced plans to upgrade seven health facilities to offer services to the residents. Chief Officer of Medical Services Dr Aiza Komeri said health centres including Amukura, Matayos and Bumola will be elevated to sub-county hospitals while Malaba or Bekai, Kayo and Budalangi dispensaries will be upgraded to health centres. Elsewhere, still members of the Disciplined Forces have been encouraged to seek divine nourishment and psychosocial support to avoid trauma that has led many to commit suicide or killing fellow officers speakers at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Malindi town during the annual interdominational Thanksgiving Mass for Disciplined Uniform Services said they were distressed by the recent trends in which officers had either committed suicide or fatally attacked others due to acorrelated trauma. Comissioner of Police Violet Machando from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations DCI Edu Quotas said the rate at which officers were committing suicide or killing one another was alarming. She urged senior officers to develop a listening heart to the adjuniors in order to reduce the stress that could lead to dangerous tendencies Kibingai Moturi, a commissioner of police based at the office of the Inspector General of Police said the vigilance house was aware of the problem affecting officers and the police services had deployed police chaplains and counsellors to give them psychosocial support. Moturi said the government was fully committed to the welfare of police officers and was passionate about supporting them. Let us have a listening heart to our officers. Staying on matters mental health residents of Marewa Village in Muranga East Subcount to walk up to road shok after mhuman and her lover were founded in their house the body rover that is seven year old Teresia Mombi was found laying on bed as that of a lover Francis Mongi was found in the sitting room hanging from the roof residents alleged that the man Francis Mongi killed Mombi before committing suicide local residents claim that they have been having domestic indifference for a while seeing the hostility could have led to the murder area chief Bernard Kaguato appeal to people especially those who live together to seek alternative ways of serving differences instead of opting to murder. Tumu'i turikuja tu kapata dhamu kwa Murango Akati turikuta dhamu tu ka angali ya kwa gate tu kakuta ta kwa gate kuna dhamu arafu tu kanda kwa dirisha ndi o turikuta huyo mama melana Hawa kwa wakisi vizuri kwa sababua li kwa na vita hapa na pala kidogo kwa sababua li kwa waki tumia pombi. Chos has been a challenges as children skip days without taking a shower and sometimes lack water to cook. With a story from Mungi town we'll be taking a very short break when we'll be coming back we'll have more stories for you including a CBK story where they have announced expiry of restructuring of Alunza state. Tumu'i will be back, stay with us. We appreciate your company this far and if you just tuned in this is over too far for you watching the business. Chos the on business sector the central bank of Kenya CBK has announced the expiry of measures of restructuring of loans for banks borrowers following the lapse of the one year allotment as part of the emergency measures to mitigate on the adverse economic effects of banks borrowers and amid coronavirus pandemic central bank of Kenya announced a set of measures including providing relief to borrowers only a personal loans based on individual circumstances arising from the pandemic as well as banks to review request from borrowers for extension of the loan for a period of up to one year the measures lapse the beginning of this month. National carrier Kenya Yawiz has announced that its losses nearly tripled in 2020 to stand at 36 billion shillings compared to 13 billion shillings in 2019 the national carrier has attributed the loss to among others the collapse of its operations across 2020 on the back of COVID-19 related disruptions according to CEO Alan Kela Voka Kenya Yawiz passengers dropped significantly during the year under review to 1.8 million compared to 5.2 million in 2019 heating hard on its revenue income the airlines revenue was also down by 60 percent to stand at 52 billion shillings in the period under review the airlines operating expenses were also down by 38.5 percent to stand at 79.3 billion shillings from 130 billion shillings in 2019 the airlines operating expenses was also down by 38.5 percent Alan Kela Voka has however pegged recovery of the sector to other factors such as the optic of cargo services and the rollout of the vaccines and away from Kenya Israel has gone to the polls for the election in less 2 years with the nation still divided over whether Prime Minister Benjamin Nyatenau deserves to remain in office voters are casting their ballots in polling stations across Israel and in the occupied West Bank with some 6.5 million registered to vote the general consensus among pollsters, analysts and voters is that the status quo will remain in the election Netanyahu has portrayed himself as a global statesman to lead the country through its many security and diplomatic challenges he has made Israel's coronavirus vaccination campaign the centipies of his re-election been pointed to last year's diplomatic agreements with four Arab states however opponents accused Netanyahu of bungling the management of the coronavirus pandemic for most of the past year and in Australia authorities in eastern Australia have issued fresh flood warnings and evacuation orders are made relentless weeklong as emergency services deployed helicopters and boats to rescue residents stranded by a flood waters in New South Wales the worst affected state for the consecutive day of heavy rain was expected to increase the deluge over the coming 24 hours flood and severe weather warnings were extended to areas not previously affected including the south coast of Sydney Australia's largest city and areas of the northwest which were previously creeped by a prolonged drought so far no fatalities or serious injuries have been reported by thousands of homes and businesses I believe to have been damaged about 18,000 people have been evacuated and coming closer back home on how the matters Kenyatta University teaching Andrew Farrell hospital is in the process of establishing that new ICU beds in the country over the past few weeks hospital board chair Professor Olive Mogenda say that the two ICU beds that the hospital has are currently full with COVID-19 patients Professor Mogenda who was speaking after inspecting the infrastructure preparedness of Gatundo level 5 hospital that they will soon take over in management said the new beds will be available in the next 3 days she said the demand for ICU beds in the facility has increased since the third way we have hit the country this demand of forcing them to add more the hospital is regarded among the few better places to handle COVID-19 cases in the country right now we actually are full ICU is full but this week we are opening another 30 bed ICU so I can see in another maybe 3-4 days we will be having more beds but as we talk now is full that is why we decided to increase those beds so we are working hard on that it will be that bed ICU which I can confirm it will be ready by bed of this week for now ICU right now we have 24 plus 8 that is 32 beds and as I said those are full but that is why we decided to open up another 30 bed already we have sent 11 nurses here from the hospital 7 doctors just to improve the service and we will continue working with the county to make sure that this hospital is ready to the standard of a hospital at KU hospital we are also collaborating on capacity building we are going to be training the personnel in this hospital as we train others so they can be at the same level we are also going as the governor has said to collaborate on the pharaoh system just so that people who have complications can come to a hospital so we are very happy about the collaboration I would like to assure the people of Gatudo specifically and Kibui in general that this hospital will remain a level 5 hospital so that it can serve the people of Gatudo however the services we are improving to be at the level 6 level but in terms of access to the healthcare it will be here just as before staying on matters COVID-19 in Kenya today 127 people tested positive for COVID-19 from a sample size of 5,393 tested in the last 24 hours bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the country to 123,167 cumulatively so far the country has tested or has conducted 1,425 1,425,377 210 patients have recovered from the disease with 110 from home based and isolation care while 100 are from various health facilities to recoveries now stands at 90,586 suddenly 25 people have died due to COVID-19 in the last 24 hours cumulatively fatalities in the country stands at 2,048 condolences to the families and friends of those who have lost their loved ones now 1,090 patients are currently admitted in various health facilities countrywide while 3,224 patients are on home based isolation and care 135 patients are in the ICU 34 of whom are on ventilatory support and 93 on supplementary oxygen 55 patients are on supplementary oxygen with 42 of them in the general world and 13 in the high dependency unit and that story marks the end of our broadcast and I thank you so much for staying with us see you again tomorrow, same time, same place until then enjoy the rest of our programings and have yourself a very good night my name is Dereva Hilawe