A Kikuyu hospital medical doctor has been arrested after he was found with drugs supplied by the government for government hospitals in his private clinic. This is after the Pharmacy and Poisons Board raided his private clinic in Kikuyu town.
Its was claimed that drugs were going missing every time they were restocked in the hospital and it was suspected that's doctors stole them to use in their clinics. Leading the raid was the Kikuyu Pharmacy and Poison Board chairman Mr. Henry King'atua who said that Kikuyu hospital was experiencing shortage in drugs yet they weren't been used and it was suspected that some of the doctors stole the drugs for their personal gains.
He confirmed that they raided different clinics in Kikuyu and they managed to get some of the drugs in one clinic named Tumaini clinic in Kikuyu town that is owned by a medical doctor in Kikuyu Hospital. He said that stealing drugs meant for public use was a criminal offence that was punishable by law. He applauded the police for their efforts to work with the board to arrest the doctor.
Kikuyu OCPD SSP Mutune Maweu said that this was only the first case stating that some doctors even refer patients to their clinics when they visit hospitals. He mentioned an incident where a doctor sent a patients for an x-ray at his clinic which charged more expensive and he insisted on that one clinic since it was his.