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Cabinet Secretary for Health Mutahi Kagwe (right) flanked Transport CS James Macharia (centre) gestures when the first batch of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines under the COVAX scheme against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) arrives at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi on March 3, 2021 [Elvis Ogina, Standard]
Ministry of Health mandarins have in the last month demonstrated a paralysing incompetence that could roll back future gains in the war against the coronavirus which has so far claimed more than 2000 lives in Kenya.
Turf wars, internal bureaucracy and failure to implement set out plans has left Kenya’s Covid-19 response badly affected even as the most basic of activities, such as the rollout of a national vaccination plan, failing to take off as envisioned.
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