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The taxpayer may have lost close to Sh7 billion in the procurement of 37 CT scanners at an inflated cost of Sh227 million per unit under the Managed Equipment Service (MES), which was a deal between the Kenyan and Chinese governments.
Ordinarily, a unit costs between Sh40-45 million at the current market prices, but the Ministry of Health procured each at a whooping Sh227 million in a deal described by MPs as a major rip-off.
What is intriguing also is the fact that even though health is a devolved function, making the county governments the end users of the equipment, the Council of Governors, were not involved in the procurement. This raises questions on who made the decision to procure the equipment. read more