Dr Mailu said the equipment, which sunk billions of taxpayers’ shillings, ended up in an unprepared county health system. The MES contract was initially at Sh38 billion but the cost was later escalated after variation to approximately Sh63 billion. As a minister, I wondered what the secret was,” said Dr Mailu, now Kenya’s permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. “My tenure at the Ministry of Health was very challenging, especially when it came to the implementation of this project,” Dr Mailu said. Dr Mailu told the lawmakers that he thought everything relating to the project had been cleared when he assumed office.

Source: Daily Nation July 24, 2020 07:52 UTC