Nairobi, July 27 -- An audit has revealed that medical drugs were distributed to public hospitals without proof of mandatory quality testing in the financial year ending June 2025, marking a second successive year of such uncertainty.

The Office of the Auditor-General said that medical drugs worth Sh86.6 million were circulated to public hospitals without proof of quality testing in the period under review, an escalation from the previous year when consignments worth Sh49.6million were flagged for a similar anomaly.

However, the audit did not indicate what share of all distributed medicines lacked proof of testing.

The Auditor-General, Nancy Gathungu, again implicated the State Department for Public Health and Professional Standards, c...