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High cost of drugs to hurt Universal Health Care, warns expert

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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