KEMSA On Sport Again Over Stolen Over 1 million Condoms, Drugs & Billions Vanish In KEMSA.
It has emerged that 908,000 mosquito nets, 1.1 million condoms and tuberculosis drugs worth ksh. 10 million disappeared from the Global Fund warehouse in Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa).
Global Fund, which plays a key role in the financing the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, raised a red flag after it found out that 908,000 mosquito nets, 1.1 million condoms and tuberculosis drugs worth Sh10 million were missing.
As revealed by Business Daily, Global Fund suspects that the lost medicines are stolen and resold on the black market and to private chemists.
“Kemsa has poor internal controls on warehousing and inventory management resulting in 16% differences in batch numbers verified and discrepancies of 908,000 long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) between actual and expected stock balances,” read the Global Fund’s report.The lost medicines are believed to have been stolen and resold on the black market and to private chemists.
