[David Njaaga, Standard]The Ministry of Health is at pains to explain whether the public got value for money from the controversial lease of medical equipment worth over Sh63 billion. “So there was no scientific basis in the nature of a needs assessment, that whatever decision was made was based on feelings,” said Wandayi. Mochache, while responding to audit queries relating to the financial year 2018/2019, admitted that a need assessment report was not conducted. Initially, the ministry had entered into agreements with five medical contractors for the lease of medical equipment to ninety-eight hospitals across the forty-seven counties under the scheme. He added: “The basic thing was for you to do a needs assessment task, this is just common sense but so far nothing has been done.

Source: Standard Digital May 20, 2021 14:05 UTC