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    "id": 143417,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank Mr. Shakeel for that question. The steps we are taking under the reform process in KEMSA to ensure that we have both local producers of pharmaceuticals and pharmaceuticals imported from abroad, is that the Pharmacy and Poisons Board is now working with an internationally reputable company to introduce bar-coding for our drugs. Also, we insist that those who supply us should be World Health Organization (WHO) qualified. We do believe that if we use the bar-coding for drugs acceptable by KEMSA and WHO qualification, we shall deal effectively with the issue of counterfeits. That process is going on and within this year, we should be able to put it into operation. Secondly, we are also thinking of doing contract manufacturing with reputable firms, both local and international so that we stop this rather ad hoc behaviour of short- term tendering whereby even briefcase tenderers come in and pose as manufacturers when they are actually third parties in a long chain of supply which quite often is very dangerous. These are the steps that we are intending to take and we hope they will be effective."
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