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Auditor: KEMSA let drugs worth Sh 352 million expire, while hospitals were lacking

Medicine

The national medical supplies agency lost drugs valued at Sh352 million that expired in their stores or got damaged, the Auditor General has revealed.

The auditor noted that the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (Kemsa), which is tasked with supplying medical drugs and equipment to hospitals under both the national and county governments, could not explain why it let the drugs expire when health institutions in the country were facing shortages.

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