Health CS Mutahi Kagwe came in Brenda’s defense yesterday. Many social media users have been attacking Brenda Cherotich, one of the recovered coronavirus patients.
A section of Kenyans took to social media to make a mockery of the Government’s effort to raise awareness.
“Yesterday I informed you about our two young people who have recovered from coronavirus. However, some have decided to trivialize our efforts and in so doing, trivialise two Kenyans,” he said.
Kagwe condemned the perpetrators saying instead of reenergizing their efforts and raising alert levels, some decided to make fun and brand the session with Brenda and Brian as a public relations exercise.
Really? A PR exercise? Why would a government in collaboration with the World Health Organization and other inter-governmental organizations decide to make a PR exercise with two innocent Kenyans?” he posed.
Kagwe described the claims as ‘unpalatable’ and described those trivializing the Government’s efforts as ‘unpalatable, archaic and retrogressive.’
“I condemn in the strongest terms any person who would attempt to do that,” he added.
The Health CS further warned that those found culpable will be be arrested and prosecuted in accordance with the law.
His sentiments comes a day after Brenda and Brian held a meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta via Skype with the session streamed live on local television stations.
The two were speaking in public for the first time since leaving the Mbagathi District Hospital isolation centre.
They updated the President on their health status and experience after they contracted coronavirus.
Brenda, who was confirmed as the first Kenyan patient to contract COVID-19, said she believes she contracted the virus in London while returning to Kenya from the United States.
She later held an interview with Citizen TV’s Jeff Koinange on the JKL show.
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