MEDS UNVEILS NEW COMMERCIAL ARM AS IT MARKS 40 YEARS OF HEALTHCARE SERVICE

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Mission for Essential Drugs and Supplies (MEDS) has marked four decades of healthcare service with the launch of MEDS Devane Company Limited (MDCL), a new commercial arm targeting Kenya’s private healthcare sector.

  Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale officially launched MDCL alongside the MEDS-Strathmore Supply Chain Academy during MEDS’ 40th anniversary celebrations in Nairobi. The new company, which begins operations on November 1, 2026, will supply private hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, laboratories, corporates and distributors with medicines, medical consumables, diagnostics, laboratory products, infection prevention solutions, equipment and other specialised healthcare products.

MEDS said MDCL will operate as a professionally governed commercial entity, with an initial focus on Kenya and a long-term ambition of expanding into selected East African markets. 
MDCL Board Chair Rt. Rev. Benard Owuor said the company was created to respond to the growing needs of private healthcare providers while maintaining MEDS’ reputation for quality, affordability and reliable supply.

MEDS Chief Executive Officer Dr. Wycliffe Nandama, who is also MDCL’s Acting General Manager, said the new company would focus on quality assurance, dependable availability, timely delivery and professional support. He added that the strength of healthcare depends not only on medicines but also on the supply chains that ensure products reach patients when needed.

The company is named after Rev. Sr. Joan Devane, the American medical missionary and pharmacist who founded MEDS in 1986 from a small warehouse in Ruaraka, Nairobi, with only 30 products. Four decades later, MEDS stocks more than 2,000 health products and technologies, serves healthcare facilities across all 47 counties and has reached more than 10,000 clients.

Speaking during the celebrations, CS Duale commended MEDS for its contribution to quality assurance, including collaboration with the Pharmacy and Poisons Board on laboratory testing and post-market surveillance to identify substandard and falsified health products. He highlighted MEDS’ WHO prequalification, ISO 9001:2015 certification and ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation as part of its quality systems.

The anniversary celebrations were held under the theme “Celebrating 40 Years of Life-Saving Health Solutions – Legacy. Impact. Posterity.” The event brought together government officials, healthcare partners, suppliers, staff and representatives of MEDS’ founding institutions, the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Christian Health Association of Kenya.

Rt. Rev. Owuor urged private healthcare providers to partner with MDCL, saying the new company would combine commercial sustainability with MEDS’ long-standing commitment to quality healthcare.

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