By ADRIAN MWANZAUncontrolled medicine prices charged by pharmacies are putting patients’ lives in danger.Such vital drugs as insulin used by diabetic patients are now fetching K350 from K180 and most people are finding it difficult to afford them.With the shortage of drugs in Government hospital biting even harder, pharmacies are exploiting patients and former Pharmaceutical Society of Zambia (PSZ) president Jerome Kanyika has called on Government to come to the aid of suffering patients.Government, he said, needed to act and deal with cartels that have gone on rampage and are determining the prices of drugs in the country disadvantaging poor people. Mr Kanyika said the cartels had resorted to exploiting the Zambian populace as they decided on the prices of drugs since there was no price control by government.He said government needed to move in and ensure that they controlled the price of drugs because most Zambians were poor and could not afford the exorbitant prices […]
PHARMACIES EXPLOIT PATIENTS
