Sh38 billion medical equipments to counties stir controversy in Senate

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Counties have been diverting the Sh4.5 billion they are allocated each year to lease specialised medical equipment to other uses.

It has emerged that instead of using the money to lease modern theatre equipment, surgical and sterilisation equipment, laboratory equipment, kidney dialysis equipment, ICU facilities, digital X-ray machines, ultrasound and imaging equipment, the billions have been going to non-specialised apparatus.