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No cash for drugs to combat Covid-19

The medical supplies authority is yet to receive cash to procure medical essentials and drugs in the wake of the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.

Besides drugs and medical essentials such as face masks, the allocation will be spent on equipping a 120-bed ward at the Mbagathi Hospital in Nairobi, which is one of the two isolation facilities in the country. The other one is the 11-bed isolation ward at the Kenyatta National Hospital.

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