Corruption undermines government efforts in realizing its vision of providing equitable and affordable health care to all Kenyans. It compromises the quality, effectiveness and equity of the health care system. More particularly, it drains the scarce financial resources available to the sector thereby leaving little to fund operations and maintenance, especially the procurement of essential supplies. The findings of various surveys on corruption by the Commission depict varying trends of corruption with the health sector. In the survey, 24.8 percent of the health providers cited procurement of sub-standard/poor quality drugs. Similarly, 34.2 percent cited manipulation of tender documents, 31.7 percent mentioned misappropriation of supplies, 11.8 percent cited hoarding of supplies while 6.8 percent cited unnecessary procurements that are paid for but not supplied. It is also important to mention that 8.4 percent cited direct bribery of facility heads by supply companies.....Read the Report