{"id":5215,"date":"2020-03-30T15:06:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T15:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=5215"},"modified":"2020-03-30T15:06:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T15:06:39","slug":"county-procures-drugs-worth-sh45-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/county-procures-drugs-worth-sh45-million","title":{"rendered":"County procures drugs worth Sh45 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Nyandarua County has bought drugs and medical supplies worth Sh45 million through Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (Kemsa).<\/p>\n<p>The drugs will be supplied to all health facilities within the county. This is the second batch to be purchased by the county government in the past six months.<\/p>\n<p>Nyandarua Governor Francis Kimemia said even as the County prepares to combat the coronavirus, health facilities should be equipped to deal with other illnesses.&#8221;Preparedness must be holistic and touch on every aspect of health prevention, promotion and treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The supplies we receive today are part of our health strategy that ensures our health facilities are equipped to deal with not just Covid-19 but other illnesses handled on routine,&#8221; Mr Kimemia said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that 40 medical interns had been posted to JM Memorial Hospital and Engineer County Referral Hospital, as well as other health centres and dispensaries.\u00a0\u201cThe interns will ensure county health facilities run seamlessly through adequate staffing,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>He said the county was well prepared to fight the spread of the Coronavirus, adding that public places were being fumigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: Nyandarua County has bought drugs and medical supplies worth Sh45 million through Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (Kemsa). The drugs will be supplied to all health facilities within the county. This is the second batch to be purchased by the county government in the past six months. Nyandarua Governor Francis Kimemia said even as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2111,8,12],"tags":[2700,2699,2351],"class_list":["post-5215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-coronavirus-in-kenya","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-covid-19-drugs","tag-kenya-medical-supplies-agency","tag-nyandarua-governor-francis-kimemia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>County procures drugs worth Sh45 million - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nyandarua County has bought drugs and medical supplies worth Sh45 million through Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (Kemsa).The drugs\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/county-procures-drugs-worth-sh45-million\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"County procures drugs worth Sh45 million\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nyandarua County has bought drugs and medical supplies worth Sh45 million through Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (Kemsa).The drugs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/county-procures-drugs-worth-sh45-million\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-30T15:06:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/03\/onctezsbshivyji5e80e683c80e8.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/county-procures-drugs-worth-sh45-million#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/county-procures-drugs-worth-sh45-million\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"County procures drugs worth Sh45 million\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-30T15:06:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/county-procures-drugs-worth-sh45-million\"},\"wordCount\":185,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/county-procures-drugs-worth-sh45-million#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/03\/onctezsbshivyji5e80e683c80e8.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"covid-19 drugs\",\"Kenya Medical Supplies Agency\",\"Nyandarua Governor Francis Kimemia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Coronavirus in kenya\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/county-procures-drugs-worth-sh45-million#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/county-procures-drugs-worth-sh45-million\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/county-procures-drugs-worth-sh45-million\",\"name\":\"County procures drugs worth Sh45 million - 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