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Kenyan companies have began reaping fruits from the
agreement President Uhuru Kenyatta made with his Tanzanian counterpart Samia Suluhu.
In the latest conquest, Kilifi-based medical supplies company Revital Healthcare EPZ Limited has inked a deal with Tanzanian government estimated to be worth millions.
A report by
Kenya News Agency (KNA) on Saturday, June 19, indicated that the company has been contracted to supply 11 million Covid-19 vaccine syringes.
The neighbouring government ordered the 2ml, 5ml and 10ml vaccine syringes.
President Uhuru Kenyatta and President Samia Suluhu at State House on May 4, 2021
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Revital Healthcare sales and market product development director Roneek Vora noted that it won the contract due to the agreement the two countries made in early May.
He further disclosed that in its range of 42 products, Tanzania consumes 11 while Uganda consumes 12 yet Kenyan government only buys 2.
“The Tanzanian market is now opening up. We have started to get a lot of enquiries for the Covid-19 test kits that we manufacture.
“We had a meeting with one of my suppliers in Tanzania who is now interested in placing orders for the Covid test kits, PPEs, surgical face masks, and other kits that we manufacture,” stated Vora.
Revital Healthcare EPZ is the only manufacturer of the Covid-19 test kits in Africa and is only among 66 in the world that have been approved to make the product.
Its core business is the manufacture of a range of Products including conventional single-use syringes and the UNICEF and WHO mandated Auto-Disable syringes aimed at lowering the transmission of infectious diseases such as HIV.
During Suluhu's visit, she signed a Ksh100 billion deal at State House witnessed by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
- The deal was signed during a two-hour meeting between the two heads of state, which was followed by a joint address.
The deal will see Tanzania construct a Ksh100 billion gas pipeline from Dar es Salaam to Mombasa.
The 600-kilometre pipeline will pass through the port city of Tanga to Mombasa and will carry natural gas from the Songo Songo Island and from the Mnazi Bay gas fields in southern Tanzania near the border with Mozambique.
President Uhuru Kenyatta leading Kenya's delegation during the signing of the MOU's on natural gas transportation
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The deal comes just a month after Kenya and Tanzanian governments agreed to work together.