{"id":987521164,"date":"2022-01-16T03:01:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T02:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/kenya-receives-4-million-usd-for-syringe-manufacturing\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:52:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:52:08","slug":"kenya-receives-4-million-usd-for-syringe-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/kenya-receives-4-million-usd-for-syringe-manufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya receives 4 million USD for syringe manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span>Amid looming shortfalls of syringes to administer COVID-19 vaccine, Kenya\u2019s<\/span><\/span><span><span><span>&nbsp;leading medical supply&nbsp;manufacturer, Revital Healthcare (EPZ) Ltd has received 4&nbsp;million USD&nbsp;from&nbsp;development partners. This will help expand production of auto-disable&nbsp;syringes&nbsp;from about 72&nbsp;million&nbsp;to 265&nbsp;million&nbsp;annually, towards the end of 2022. It is estimated that the supply will cover more than 50% of the routine immunization needs in Africa. In his speech, the acting Health Director, Dr Patrick Amoth, said that the funding will enhance commodity supply security in the fight against the&nbsp;pandemicbesides spurring economic growth and job creation.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span>More about this news can be found on the link<strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/health\/article\/2001428288\/kenya-receives-sh400-million-for-syringe-manufacturing\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span>here<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid looming shortfalls of syringes to administer COVID-19 vaccine, Kenya\u2019s&nbsp;leading medical supply&nbsp;manufacturer, Revital Healthcare (EPZ) Ltd has received 4&nbsp;million USD&nbsp;from&nbsp;development partners. This will help expand production of auto-disable&nbsp;syringes&nbsp;from about 72&nbsp;million&nbsp;to 265&nbsp;million&nbsp;annually, towards the end of 2022. It is estimated that the supply will cover more than 50% of the routine immunization needs in Africa. In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":987528539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987521164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987528539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987521164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987521164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987521164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}