Relief as 9.3m children vaccines land ending crippling shortage

A child being vaccinated. There is a biting vaccine shortage across the country. [iStockphoto]

The arrival of the first batch of 9.3 million doses of critical childhood jabs is set to alleviate a biting shortage of the vaccines, which has put the health of hundreds of thousands of newborns in the country at risk.

Health Director-General Dr Patrick Amoth confirmed that the vaccines arrived on January 21, 2025, and have already been dispatched to nine regional depots across the country from the Central Vaccine Store (CVS) in Kitengela.