CS Kagwe orders immediate probe on Lancet over unclear COVID-19 results 

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BY KEVIN KOECH

Though-talking Health CS Mutahi Kagwe has directed the medical board to immediately begin a probe on Lancet Kenya for producing unclear results.

Speaking in Nakuru on Thursday, the CS further urged Kenyans to avoid visiting such facilities.

“It is true that there is one lab, specifically Lancet that carried out these tests that eventually turned from positive to negative.

“It is also the same lab that had also tested a group of people in Nairobi that also had the same circumstance,” said the Health CS.

“The Ministry will take its measures… we have asked our board to review that particular laboratory.

“But what I would like to urge is that if a lab has got all these unclear results, don’t go there. Why are you going to a lab that you know has been giving information that may not be clear,” he added.

CS Kagwe stated that the said laboratories risk closure should they be found not to have violated any set regulations.

“The worst thing that we can do is have a situation where people question the results that we give.

“We have asked the medical board to relook at some of these labs and where we believe a laboratory is not adhering to the standards then definitely we will close them down,” he said.

Lancet Kenya has on several occasions been put on the spotlight for issuing conflicting COVID-19 test results with members of public demanding action from the government

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