Kenya must close last mile of medicine safety

A cheaper medicine that cannot be verified, traced or monitored may ultimately impose far greater costs on patients and the healthcare system.

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A patient starts a new medicine at a health facility and returns home. Two days later, she develops severe dizziness and a rash. She is unsure whether the medicine is responsible. The facility may be kilometres away.

She does not know whether what she is experiencing should be reported, whom she should tell or whether her concern is serious enough to matter. So, she tells her family, perhaps a neighbor. But the health system may never hear about it.

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