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Kenya: Lives at Risk as Drugs Agency Probe Puts Brakes on Supplies
Nation, 20 September 2020
Failure by the government to buy essential medical supplies due to the ongoing corruption investigations is putting millions of lives at risk, health professionals warn. Read more »
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Kenya: Origins of 'Mafia House' Cartel and the Shifty Art of Selling Air
Nation, 20 September 2020
Before Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji goes for the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority's (Kemsa) fat cats - who suffer insatiable greed and would inflate costs at any… Read more »
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Kenya: Senators Want Counties to Buy Drugs From Other Entities, Apart From Kemsa
Nation, 15 September 2020
The scandal-ridden Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) will lose its monopoly in the supply of medical products and technologies to counties and government agencies if… Read more »
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Kenya: Govt Drug Supplies Agency Stuck With Stock No One Needs
Nation, 13 September 2020
Some companies provided goods to the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) even before the agency could tender for them, even as top officials warned against buying equipment… Read more »
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Kenya: Inside Anti-Corruption Detectives' 7-Hour Siege at Kemsa
Nation, 10 September 2020
Anti-corruption detectives Wednesday raided the offices of the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) and spent close to seven hours combing the place for clues that could help… Read more »
Kenya’s Failure to Buy Drugs Putting Millions of Lives at Risk
Due to ongoing corruption investigations, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission officials took all the records at Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (Kemsa) and stopped payments almost two weeks ago. Cancer, diabetes, hypertension, epilepsy, stomach ulcers, and malaria drugs are reportedly almost running out of stock. Medicines for mental disorders are missing. Sources have told the Sunday Nation newspaper that the stocks available may not last a month. The country has been grappling with the scarcity of medicines, vaccines and pharmaceutical products, a situation now made worse by the ongoing investigations. Kemsa has been on the spot for weeks following reports of the purchase of Covid-19 items at grossly exaggerated prices. The country may have lost billions of shillings in the scandal. In August 2019 Kenyatta declared that his war on corruption was informed by the fact he will not be seeking votes from Kenyans after his current term.
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