The Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan has been embroiled in a corruption scandal related to the procurement of whooping cough vaccines from the French company Sanofi.
Despite the fact that the World Health Organization does not recommend these vaccines, the Ministry of Health still purchases them annually, and has already spent 149.5 billion tenge on them.
Sanofi’s acellular vaccines are less stable and require eight doses, while standard whooping cough vaccines require only four. This overspending amounts to up to 10 billion tenge per year.
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