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Study finds Nairobi pharmacies sell low quality generic drugs

Inspectors from the Pharmacy and Poisons Board take details of drugs they impounded during a crackdown on illegally operated pharmacy outlets

The generic drugs you bought from the pharmacy are probably to blame for that sore throat that just won’t go away no matter how much medicine you take.

It has emerged that more than a dozen pneumonia generic drugs from Nairobi pharmacies have failed to meet internationally accepted benchmarks at the National Quality Control Laboratory (NQCL).

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