Ruto faults the government for importing ‘hospital water’
2 min readRuto faults the government for importing ‘hospital water’ or rather the medical fluids used in hospitals.
Deputy President William Ruto noted that the intravenous fluids (drips) are 95 percent made of water and thus be produced locally.
DP Ruto was speaking on 27, June during the launch of Kenya Kwanza’s health agenda.
To this, Ruto said should he win the August election, some of the medical supplies imported will be made locally to scale up local manufacturing in order to create jobs.
“We are currently buying health fluids, the drips we have, which is 95% water. So basically we are importing water from other countries and we are paying for it,” said Ruto.
“It is time we make sure we scale up our manufacturing locally of pharmaceutical commodities. It must be deliberate and informed by our desire to create local jobs,” he said.
Ruto further faulted the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) which he said was ridden by cartels, making it impossible for local manufacturing of pharmaceutical commodities.
“I was talking to a gentleman who produces medical commodities and he told me he supplies everywhere else apart from Kenya. He cannot access the Kenyan market yet he is a Kenyan producing in Kenya and it is because of the cartels around KEMSA and that whole space. We must break the cartels and make it possible for manufacturing of pharmaceutical commodities to happen in Kenya,” he added.
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