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KEMSA flagged off phased out HIV drugs which can damage liver HEALTH & SCIENCE KEMSA headquarters [Jenipher Wachie, Standard] The Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA) has been accused of supplying phased out HIV drugs that are less superior in suppressing the virus and have adverse side effects. These drugs worth Sh1.2 billion were phased out by the Ministry of Health in 2019. Their side effects include rashes, abdominal pain, headache, fatigue, muscle pain and liver damage. The phased-out ARVs include Zidovudine, Lamivudine and Nevirapine and were a donation from the Global Fund and the President’s Emergency Plan for Aid Relief (Pepfar).
US no longer trusts Kemsa to distribute HIV drugs HEALTH & SCIENCE Kemsa loads ARVs worth 2.2 billion to 31 counties. [File, Standard] Wrangling between the Kenya government and a US donor agency over distribution of Sh1.1 billion worth of ARVs continues to expose million of Kenyans living with HIV to risks of death. Weeks after the government reportedly waived taxes on the donated drugs, the controversy deepened when United States Agency for International Development (USAid) insisted that Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (Kemsa) will not be charged with distribution of the same. A source from the Health ministry intimated that USAid had lost trust in Kemsa and demanded that distribution be done by Chemonics International, which the US government has contracted for transparency purposes.
The Covid-19 pandemic has directed our collective focus on all things medical. In the process we have been compelled to confront the good, the bad and the ugly of our health system. One of the first negative impacts of the pandemic, even before it arrived in our country, was the strained medical supplies situation that started to evolve, affecting availability of many life-saving medicines. This revealed our over-dependence on pharmaceutical and medical device imports. This shortage was experienced globally at the start of the pandemic, to a large extent because its epicentre at the time was Hubei Province, China, a global hub for pharmaceutical raw materials, then under locked down.
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Another notice from the Biomedical Engineering department also notes that the nationwide shortage of medical oxygen has affected “all our theatres, ICU and Mbagathi IDU”, but clinicians have been notified that there is medical oxygen available for only two theatres, which will run emergencies in maternity and main theatre.” Kiambu County has also scaled down elective surgeries in all its hospitals over lack of medical oxygen. The biggest supplier of medical oxygen, BOC Kenya, has been flooded with demand from health facilities, leading to inadequate supply. Kireki Omanwa, the Secretary General of the Kenya Obstetrical and Gynecological Society, recalled waiting for 13 hours at KNH for his uncle to get a bed with a medical oxygen point.