Kenya: Fake Medicines Flood Country
Kenya is still ranked among countries with the highest levels of fake medicines in the world.
A recent World Health Organisation update says that a random survey by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board showed that almost 30 per cent of drugs sold in the country were counterfeits – some of them being no more than just chalk or water marketed as efficacious pharmaceutical products.
According to the WHO drug information report, the Kenya Association of Pharmaceutical Industry says counterfeit pharmaceutical products account for approximately $130 million (about Sh9 billion) annually in sales in the country.
By Mike Mwaniki
15 November 2007