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Tana River's Sh800m idle medical machines

President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto shown some of the equipment during their commissioning at Hola Referral Hospital in Tana River County in 2016. [File, Standard]

Tana River is one of the counties where machines are lying idle in hospitals despite paying Sh800 million since 2016 to lease them.

An investigation by the special Senate committee on health found out that in Tana River, lack of power and enough doctors to operate the machines was what was keeping them idle.

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