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Senate Health Committee Chairman Michael Mbito (left) chats with World Bank Lead Health Specialist Dr.Khama Rogo on the health care financing and achieving UHC at Red Cross building on Tuesday. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]
The high cost of locally manufactured medicinal drugs has been cited as one of the challenges that will undermine the state’s Universal Health Care program.
Khama Rogo, a Lead Health Specialist with the World Bank said the long supply chain involved in the purchase of the pharmaceutical drugs is to blame for their exorbitant prices of the products.
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