Leasing medical equipment cost State Sh3b more

Megascope Healthcare Kenya Limited General Manager Renne Rupallo and Mr Lun Tao Yin the vice president of Chinese firm of Shenzhen Mindray when they appeared before the Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on the Medical Leasing Equipment at Parliament. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

The Government could have saved Sh3 billion in the first phase of the controversial Sh63 billion medical equipment leasing scheme had it bought them instead.

The contractor who supplied their first lot of the Managed Equipment Service (MES) at Sh4.5 billion yesterday said purchasing the equipment could have cost the Government Sh1.4 billion.