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US medics want tax on medical supplies to Kenya waived

Ms Millicent Mucheru (right), the founder of Medical Missions Kenya and Hunger Relief, a USA-based charitable organisation which offers free medical care to pastoralist communities tests a girl (16) during a free medical camp at Kimanjo Sub-district Hospital in Laikipia North. The camp cost about Sh6 million. PHOTO: JOB WERU/STANDARD

Medical volunteers from the US have criticized the Government for imposing tax on their supplies.

The medics said the equipment and supplies, which they had bought to distribute to patients during free medical camps in Laikipia, had been subjected to heavy taxation.

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