Questions have emerged following the disappearance of medical supplies from the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) warehouse.
The Global Fund, as quoted by Business Daily, has found out that 908,000 mosquito nets, 1.1 million condoms and tuberculosis drugs worth Sh10 million had disappeared from the Kemsa warehouse.
Global Fund is a United Nations-backed organisation that finances the fight against HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria.
The organisation has also warned that some suspected fake suppliers are demanding Sh1.66 billion from Authority.
According to the Business Daily, Global Fund suspects that the lost medicines are stolen and resold on the black market and to private chemists.
The organisation also accused Kemsa of overstating the value of medicines by Sh640 million, with some types of drugs having been inflated 100 times.
"Kemsa has poor internal controls on warehousing and inventory management, resulting in 16 per cent differences in batch numbers verified and discrepancies of 908,000 long-lasting insecticidal nets between actual and expected stock balances," the Global Fund said.
Some of the drugs, which were bought from Global Fund, expired amid a shortfall in government hospitals.
This comes as Kemsa battles to clean its image after the tender fraud over the procurement of Covid-19 medical supplies in 2020.
The government had ordered millions of male condoms that were expected in the country this month.
This was expected to end a shortage of free condoms, which was reported end of last year.
“The procurement of public sector free condoms is ongoing and the next batch is expected in the country in March 2022,” Joab Khasewa, the monitoring and evaluation officer at the National Aids Control Council told journalists.
