By SIMON MUNTEMBA and SANFROSSA MANYINDAGOVERNMENT has procured enough drugs to ease the shortage being experienced in health centres, Ministry of health spokesperson Able Kabalo said yesterday.Dr Kabalo was reacting to revelations that health centres around the country had run out of essential drugs.Dr Kabalo said Government was committed to ensuring that health centres were stocked with drugs and that government had recently procured a number of health drug kits to cushion drug supply in health centres.“Just recently what we did as government is that we procured a number of health centre drug kits that should actually cushion the facilities in terms of drug supply,” Dr Kabalo said.However, earlier yesterday, a survey revealed that a shortage of essential drugs had hit most public health facilities with patients being given prescriptions to buy most drugs from chemists.The situation has incensed residents in Kitwe, some of whom indicated that they would be shunning accessing health services from […]
WE’VE ENOUGH DRUGS
