Senators demand sacking of Kemsa bosses in dispute
PHOTO | JENNIFER MUIRURI | FILE Cabinet secretary for Health James Macharia (2nd left) receives donated drugs from World Health Organization country representative Custodia Mandlhate on August 1, 2013.
Managers accused of supplying expired drugs to hospitals and blamed for agency’s inefficiency
The committee made the appeal during a one-week tour of hospitals in the North Rift
A Senate team wants the national drugs agency overhauled over alleged corruption and delays in distribution of medicine to public hospitals.
The Senate Committee on Health claimed expired and wrong drugs worth millions of shillings had been dispatched to many hospitals and blamed the management of the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (Kemsa) for the blunder.
