15 Nov 2018
Nairobi, Kenya
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. BBC’s Life Clinic explores how counterfeit drugs are making their way into the Kenyan market with potentially fatal consequences.
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.
Source : BBC News Africa.
Nairobi, Kenya
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. BBC’s Life Clinic explores how counterfeit drugs are making their way into the Kenyan market with potentially fatal consequences.
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.
Source : BBC News Africa.