when I read somewhere that even your hospitals have run out of drugs.
POSTED THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2014.
Power games blamed for shortage of drugs:
Health officials have implicated power
struggles for the acute drug shortage in
county hospitals.
Many health institutions are short of drugs
because of delays in funds release from the
National Treasury and long procurement
processes.
Kapkatet District Hospital Medical
Superintendent Kenneth Sigilai, in Kericho,
said that before devolution of health
services, hospitals were allowed to place
orders to the Kenya Medical Supplies
Agency (Kemsa) and the National Treasury
made payments directly to it.
The institutions now have to pay Kemsa by
themselves using funds they receive from
county governments.
However, obtaining money from the county
governments takes time due to bureaucracy
and delay of disbursement from the
national government, Dr Sigilai says
In addition, the Public Finance Management
Act requires hospitals to bank all their
revenue with the county government,
unlike before when they kept the cash.
We give our revenue and then we get stuck
since they release funds late.
Even small monies necessary for attending
to emergencies are nowadays not there, he
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