{"id":5782,"date":"2019-10-07T10:06:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T07:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5782"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","slug":"kemsa-to-deny-defaulting-counties-drugs-over-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/07\/kemsa-to-deny-defaulting-counties-drugs-over-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Kemsa to Deny Defaulting Counties Drugs Over Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Waikwa Maina<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of health will not allow county governments\nthat owe Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) more than Sh2.3 billion for\ndrugs supplied last year to purchase medicines and other supplies from other\nsources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at Manunga Health Centre, Kipipiri Constituency in\nNyandarua, Health Cabinet secretary Sicily Kariuki said the defaulter counties\nhave no option other than clear the debts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said it is a government policy that all public health\nfacilities must purchase the drugs and other medical supplies from the Kemsa,\nwhich offer them at subsidised prices, with guaranteed quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are still negotiating with Kemsa to have them further\ndrop the prices of the drug but we shall not allow the defaulters to buy\nmedicines from unknown sources and risk the lives of our people, the only\nsolution to debt is to pay,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Kariuki said counties are allowed to buy what the Kemsa\ndoes not have from other sources. &#8220;Kemsa drugs are bought using taxpayers\u2019\nmoney who deserve the best quality drugs and services,\u201d said Ms Kariuki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/economy\/Kemsa-to-deny-defaulting-counties-drugs-over-debt\/3946234-5301362-9362sa\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Waikwa Maina The Ministry of health will not allow county governments that owe Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) more than Sh2.3 billion for drugs supplied last year to purchase&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}