Elgeyo Marakwet Governor Wisely Rotich on Thursday, September 1, 2022, received a consignment of pharmaceutical supplies worth Ksh7 million at the Iten County Referral Hospital (ICRH).
The drugs were delivered by the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency KEMSA.
KEMSA delivered the consignment just a day after Governor Rotich engaged the KEMSA management in Nairobi over the pertinent situation facing health facilities in Elgeyo Marakwet County.
“This is the first consignment and the supplies Agency is going to deliver other consignments in course of the week that will be distributed to all health facilities across the County,” said Governor Rotich.
However, he put on notice pharmacy officials over theft of drugs and pharmaceutical supplies saying, “We cannot be struggling like this to obtain these drugs and the next day you hear other stories about theft.”
Further, the governor called wananchi to be on the look and report any cases where government-labelled drugs bearing KEMSA or Government of Kenya (GOK) were on sale.
Meanwhile, Rotich issued a directive to ICRH management to ensure that no patient is sent to purchase drugs from private Chemists.
“As Iten County Referral Hospital, you need to make arrangements to purchase any other essential drugs that are not available in this delivery and therefore, I don’t want to hear again cases where patients are referred to private Chemists,” the governor told the facility management.
Health Chief Officer Mary Kipchumba and ICRH Medical Superintendent Benjamin Kimaile and hospital staff were present.
