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Billions at stake as Health ministry standoff with the contractor persists

Seven Seas Technologies CEO Michael King’ori Macharia.

From his elementary workstation off Riverside Drive, the lanky but now haggard founder and group CEO of Seven Seas Technologies Group is counting down to a financial disaster unless a miracle saves him.

The Sh4.9 billion Health Care Information Technology (HCIT) deal he inked with the Ministry of Health to deploy an information system and supporting ICT infrastructure across 98 county hospitals is ebbing away in controversy, and with it Sh1 billion investment.

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