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Herbal sauna where people battling lifestyle diseases meet, alleviate pain

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Balneotherapy Clinic Herbal Sauna and Steam Bath nurses Sheila Chemoba (left) and Joan Yama. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

It is mid-morning at a former garage off Eldoret-Kisumu road in the Pioneer area, and a wide path leads you to a registration desk.

The parking is ample, and people, the majority visibly overweight, ostentatiously strolled in.

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