Report Reveals Dispensaries and Health Centers are running out of Drugs
A report reveals that since last week Friday dispensaries and health centers are running out of drugs .
WanjiruWarobi 
This is after a disagreement between KEMSA and NMS over pending bills. Mark Mugambi Umoja I's MCA confirmed this after residents raised concerns over the lack of medicine in health facilities.“Residents are suffering as even Panadol, the cheapest of all, is not available. It is absurd. Why build more hospitals while the ones there have no medicine? It beats logic,” said Mr. Mugambi.
Patients have been forced to go to private hospitals which are beyond their means being that private hospitals are expensive. The Director of Nairobi Metropolitan Service Health Services Ouma Oluga has admitted to this crisis but assures residents that the issue will be sorted by Monday next week.
Dr. Oluga explained that the problem is a result of a temporary challenge with supplies because of the Sh374.9 million Kemsa debt inherited from City Hall and the long period it has taken to verify the pending bills. Kemsa also wants the City Hall debt inherited by the Lieutenant-General Mohamed Badi-led administration cleared as well.
