Kenya: Malaria Tablets' Price Up in Teso, Bungoma

RESIDENTS of Bungoma and Teso have appealed to the government to intervene and avert the subsidised AL malaria tablets crisis. Two weeks after the 24-packet tablets disappeared from the shelves, the price has shot up by 200 per cent.

The anti-malaria tablets, which were being sold for Sh40 per packet, are now going for Sh120 in the chemists in Bungoma and Sh100 in Malaba.

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