By NATION REPORTERSHORTAGES of drugs and other medical supplies have continued in hospitals and clinics with those not on the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIMA) scheme being told to purchase their own medication.A number of stakeholders have blamed corruption as the major cause with former Pharmaceutical Society of Zambia president Jerome Kanyika left angered that the country has continued experiencing persistent and critical shortage of drugs in most of the health facilities despite government having released money to the Zambia Medicines and Medical Supplies Agency (ZAMMSA).Mr Kanyika has attributed the continued shortage of medicines and other medical supplies in hospitals across the country to corruption allegedly taking place at ZAMSA.There has been persistent shortage of medicines and other medical supplies in the country for more than a year and government has failed to resolve the shortage because the Minister of Health Silvia Masebo has continued claiming that there are no shortages of drugs in hospitals.Most […]
Drug shortagebites
