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Nairobi’s Mutuini Hospital used money for drugs to buy charcoal

A ward at Mutuini Hospital in in Dagoretti, Nairobi. The hospital irregularly used Sh309,734 meant for drugs. [File, Standard]

A Nairobi County watchdog committee is now investigating how officials at Mutuini Hospital irregularly spent Sh309,734 meant for the purchase of emergency drugs.

The public accounts committee today heard that officials bought cooking gas and charcoal with funds meant for crucial and emergency drugs.

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