Officials from the Efficiency Monitoring Unit tell the Parliamentary Departmental Committee on Health that the bulk of counterfeit drugs come through the airport concealed in packages of clothes and electronics usually through the Eldoret international airport.

In line with Section 43 of the constitution that asserts that no Kenyan will be denied emergency treatment and are entitled to the highest possible health care, the two Ministries Of Health release proposals that include guaranteed emergency care for all.

Head of the Pharmacy and Poisons board say all chemists will be inspected and those found selling nine banned drugs manufactured by an Indian company would be prosecuted. The board conducted an inspection tour of the company facilities and declared that the company did not meet minimum standards.

Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (Kari) Kisii center allocates land to traditional medicine practitioners as the National Traditional Health Practitioners Association chair resolves that all herbalists displaying and selling their products in open air markets, matatus and villages will be de

As New York became the sixth and the most populous state in the US to recognize same sex unions as legal, civil rights activists argue that the US congress should now repeal a federal law defining marriage as only existing between a man and a woman.

A blood donor recruiter at Regional Blood Transfusion Centre in Kisumu says the biggest barrier to donations in Kenya is the lack of awareness as majority of Kenyans are not aware of the urgent need for blood and the process of donation which is actually very safe and easy.

The Efficiency Monitoring Unit reveals gross inefficiency and negligence by officers at the Pharmacy and Poisons Board, and is asking the agency to recall all unregistered drugs from the market and tighten inspection of imported pharmaceutical products before they are released into the market.

In an audit by the Efficiency Monitoring Unit, dangerous drugs are falling into the hands of Kenyans because the agency tasked with vetting them has been allowing them into the country.