Essential drugs will be available in Elgeyo Marakwet health facilities next week after the county paid arrears to Kemsa.
The Kenya Medical Supplies Authority, the national drugs supplier, had frozen supplies to counties with huge debts.
It was not immediately known how much Elgeyo Marakwet owed and exactly how much it paid and for how long facilities have been lacking essential medicine and supplies.
New Governor Wesley Rotich placed an order of Sh74 million on Thursday.
The first delivery worth more than Sh38 million is to arrive at Iten this weekend for despatch to public facilities.
Elgeyo Marakwet has two district hospitals, six subdistrict hospitals, one mission hospital, 16 health centres, 79 dispensaries, 10 private clinics and 12 community units.
Iten Level IV Hospital, the county's biggest, is complemented by health centres and dispensaries to provide most primary health care services.
Rotich said he would support Kemsa's reform agenda. It includes revenue generation such as contract manufacturing and technical support services beyond procurement and warehousing.
The county boss has committed to ring fence funds meant for healthcare, especially purchase of essential medicines. The funds have been diverted in the past.
He emphasised the importance of spending health funds for health and promised prompt payment to supply agencies.
Rotich and other governors have been rushing to pay arrears to Kemsa after most had their accounts frozen due to huge debts.
Some governors have blamed the drugs shortage on cartels sourcing drugs from private suppliers instead of Kemsa.
Kemsa CEO Terry Ramadhani on Thursday reaffirmed that reforms at the authority remain on course.
She said Kemsa will be engaging county governments and the National Assembly to support of its revenue diversification strategies and ring fencing of health funds by counties.
She said ringfencing health budgets at the county level will help settle more than Sh2 billion owed Kemsa by counties.
The huge debt owed has hampered deliveries and the authority's efficiency.
The new Kemsa credit management strategy aims to collect at least Sh500 million in outstanding dues from counties.
Ramadhani said the new collection strategy follows recent restructuring and separation of the authority’s sales and credit management functions. They were previously intertwined.
Improved credit management under an independent department aims to ensure sustainability of the Kemsa revolving fund.
