'I am a victim of Kenya's fake drugs crisis' | BBC Africa Documentary
'I am a victim of Kenya's fake drugs crisis' | BBC Africa Documentary
The worldwide trade in fake drugs is now a 30 billion dollar industry according to WHO, a figure that has nearly tripled in the last five years. In Kenya the Pharmaceutical Society of Kenya estimates that 30% of all medicines sold are counterfeit, or substandard with anti-malaria and antibiotics being the most commonly falsified drugs.
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They need to have some sort of Batch verification system for medicine, where they can scan each unique batch code to see if it’s real in a computerized system, like a website they can put the code in, and see if it’s counterfeit or not, this would go a really long way in stopping this, there needs to be some sort of verification system for patients to check pharmacy’s legitimacy, and the legitimacy of there drugs, there needs to be some sort of QR code or scanning system. It’s the only way to stop this and stop the corruption, as corruption is the Mane cause for this also cheaper drugs .For the poor, subsidized, or a cheaper price/ manufacture process, only if company would invest there money into securing this. They are loosing major profits off of fake drugs
OMG nooooooooo God bless the world. Philadelphia USA
That's crazy how people would buy medications that are fake without knowing.
What a shame?
Mostly fake pharmaceuticals medicines come from India and China also even the pharmaceutical industry is not here to cure people but to profit.
Your better of in traditional medicine and genuine healers which are herbal medicine.
Did you see the reaction on that madam Khaemba ??? The silence speaks volumes…
Manager's don't answer those questions the only take cash and continue help destroy the future allegedly
African leaders can actually do something to protect the future generations the enemies are continuing to damage Africa future will the leaders continue to spend and enjoy the money's allegedly, what will happen in the next 50 Year?
Corruption the problem of most African countries
She’s the one who can answer but can’t explain her mediocre department’s performance and doesn’t want to be held accountable for the issue at hand . We need a system that will hold people accountable.
💊 Fake drug selling = Crimes against humanities
JACK ALEXANDER MARRIAN
Why government of Kenya allowing this to happen.
Unbelievable they must stop this immediately by spreading news to all TV stations, telling people personally to stop buying any kind of drugs. And immediately opening real drug stores.
I love the narrators voice
It's pretty cool to see black pharmacists since that's pretty rare in the US
Please put subtitles. I’m african myself but the accent is hard to understand if we’re not familiar with it. I had stop watchin, sadly…
what is the name of the example at 9:49 ?
So horrified and scared. Corruption is killing us . These dumb ass leaders need to CARE , just for ONCE||||| #TiredKenyan
WTF ARE YOU DEAF? SHE SAID YOU SHOULD DIRECT THE QUESTIONS TO THOSE WHO CONTROL THE PORTS OF ENTRY VIS A VIS THE CUSTOMS.
That lady is an embarrassment
Kenya is a shit country
Kenyans don’t love one another. They love money more
No doubt Kenya is a shithole country !!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
If we can get corruption out of our blood our continent would be unstoppable.
they are killing us with this fake drugs
Fake news
That was just savage how you handled that woman from the Poisons Board
I encourage all Kenyans to check out MyDawa. A Kenyan app which you can order drugs and ensure that they are real by scanning a QR code on the packaging.
Kenyans love to engage in stupid political drama, Who will be the next president 2022 / Joho and Raila plotting to subjugate Ruto presidential aspiration etc total nonsense while pertinent issues like this are no being addressed. This are the issues people should be having discourse on social media and force politicians to take stringent measures, but no , just peruse the social media, it just political soap opera.
forget the fake medicine. did anyone notice the jewelry being made by the first lady interviewed! oh wow! wish i knew where to get her
That lady from the pharmacy and poisons board isn't competent enough to have the position she holds.
Christabel why come on camera if you can’t speak. simple questions, you made your organization look untrustworthy
Shame. Clearly that lady and the entire board are incompetent. They should be locked up
🙏🏿💧🙏🏿
This is insane. It's costly to get medical care and then to be defrauded as well? The average people would have no idea.
there are protocols man, you cant just expect answers from direct rabid questions…rubbish journalism..this might be polliticaly instigated by unscrupulous businessmen with hidden agendas..,,and then that phoney puppet reporter.proud hes working for bbc.
there are protocols man, you cant just expect answers…rubbish journalism.
0:00 where the fk did he come from!!
Something is Not clear. Its so sad to see this. CORRUPTION WILL KILL US
the real travesty is the lack of subtitles
Nice story, I hope the government is working on this. This should be viral fellow Kenyans
From China. That’s why they is a lot of cancer cases
Wafutwe kazi wote!!
That lady at the end is most definitely corrupt
MIGUNA MIGUNA IS THE ANSWER
Zero accountability of what they do thats why she has no comment 🤦♂️
Useless woman how can you be so incompetent especially when you are dealing with human lives. You sit there as a manager yet you have no clue of what you are managing. You then shift your responsibility to other people who do not exist. So pathetic
This is why we need Miguna miguna, an uprighteader who will put all these garbage to a standstill there is no hope for Kenya unless you choose Miguna miguna for president period.
We need to go back to our local miti shamba. You can't go wrong. But we believe so much in foreign world that we end up killing yourselves
i worked in the accounting department of a major pharmacy and the money they make is insane. they get profits upwards of upto 5000% per drug. whats crazy is the government never bothers to regulate the prices & the companies making the drugs don't care as long as their drugs are sold. these are the kinds of stories we should be hearing in our media not petty issues like MPs throwing chairs at each other in parliament