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The hazard of keeping medicines at home

One important factor that should be reiterated to all Kenyans and maybe all over the world is that keeping a bulk of medicines at home doesn’t make you healthy. This is a recently prevalent behaviour that is on the rise among urban city dwellers in Nairobi and especially those who have ready access to pharmacies and chemists.

It would be surprising, however, that this closeness to both pharmacies and chemists still makes them want to store drugs at home in bulk, something that someone who maybe lives in rural Kenya may be excused part of.

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