Kemsa dispatches Sh37.6 million drugs to Makueni County

The Kenya Medical Supplies Authority has dispatched essential medical supplies to Makueni County in renewed efforts to sustain health service provision.

Makueni becomes the first of the 47 counties to receive its fourth quarter products and technologies following an order placed recently with Kemsa.

The Sh37.6 million consignment comprising oncology, renal, surgical, laboratory, radiology, dental and linen items was flagged off on Monday.

The supplies are meant to benefit more than 240 rural health facilities, and 13 hospitals spread across the county’s six subcounties beginning Tuesday to boost primary and secondary healthcare goals.

Governor Kivutha Kibwana and Kemsa CEO Terry Ramadhani witnessed the flag off at the Authority’s Embakasi national supply chain centre.

Ramadhani described Makueni as a model county on many fronts while celebrating the county’s continued reliance on the Authority’s supply chain solutions to power its health agenda.

“This is one county that has always placed its orders and settled its financial commitments with KEMSA on time and promptly,” she said.

Ramadhani further lauded Makueni County for being one of the first counties to adopt Kemsa's Logistics Management Information System (LMIS).

The LMIS is part of the authority’s enterprise resource management system which facilitates better operating information visibility across the supply chain.

Kibwana noted that ongoing reforms Kemsa and NHIF and other places in the public health sector will go a long way in making the dream of UHC a reality.

“From the point of CoG we are also happy because we have been struggling in the past to have representation on the board and that has become a reality,” Kibwana said.