KEMRI boss charged with touching breasts and forcing hugs on interns
A senior Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) officer accused of frequently touched an intern’s breasts within the institution’s premises and forcing her to hug him for a period of five months was charged with sexual harassment contrary to the sexual offences Act of 2006.
The officer, a senior internal auditor, is accused of making unwelcome sexual advances at the victim, who was an intern at the department where he was a senior officer – at Kemri headquarters in Nairobi.
He is reported to have committed the offence on diverse dates between December 2016 and April 2017 during the period the victim was an intern at the internal audit department where he is accused of forcing hugs on her and offering to make her a second wife.
Those discharged from the home-based care programme are 155 while 21 were in various hospitals.
Kenya s total recoveries now stand at 75,735. Currently there are 831 patients admitted in various health facilities countrywide and 5,834 on Home-Based Isolation and Care, said a statement from Health CS Mutahi Kagwe.
Meanwhile, the government will spend Sh10 billion to purchase 12 million doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.
It, therefore, means the country will be buying the vaccine for sh833 per dose.
The Ministry of Health has revealed that the 12 million doses will be an addition to the 24 million others of the vaccine the country expects in the first quarter of 2021.
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine which US, Singapore and Canada have ordered has a price tag of Sh2,000 per dose followed by Moderna’s which costs between sh1,500 and sh1,700 a dose. AstraZeneca goes for about sh400 to sh600 a dose.
Therefore, the government’s plan to purchase 12 million doses from a budgetary allocation of sh10 billion means each dose will cost sh833.
Amoth said the AstraZeneca vaccine is also suitable for the country’s cold chain logistics as it can be stored under temperatures of between two and eight degrees Celsius.
“The other two vaccines require a unique cold chain system that most countries do not have,” said Amoth referring to Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
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