Covid-19: Langata Hospital, KEMRI clash on testing of samples


[Source: Daily Nation, by Angela Oketch and Nasibo Kabale]

A war of words has erupted between the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) and Langata Hospital over Covid-19 tests that the State agency has been conducting on behalf of the private health provider.

While Langata Hospital insists that Kemri agreed to test all coronavirus samples from the facility, the agency insists that the two parties had a memorandum of understanding to only test persons in the food and beverage department.

Kemri holds that its agreement with Lang’ata was that it only conducts tests on people in the service industry which, requires several exams, before they are employed.

However, according to managers of Lang’ata Hospital, there was no MoU signed between…

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