By ROGERS KALERO and ADRIAN MWANZACONTRARY to assertions that hospitals and clinics have been fully stocked with drugs, the Residents Doctors Association of Zambia (RDAZ) has appealed to President Hakainde Hichilema to take a tour of some of the facilities in Lusaka to see for himself the extent of the critical shortage.RDAZ president Dr Brian Sampa said a false narrative was being propagated that hospitals and clinics had been stocked with drugs when in fact not.“The head of State should take time see for himself what is happening in most of these clinics and hospitals because it seems our calls are falling on deaf ears,” he said.He said that a check in most hospitals indicated that they only had pain killers and ARV’s but did not have the other essential drugs.“That problem is still there, they have not procured drugs in bulk and what is available right now is what was donated by stakeholders,” Dr […]
Drug shortages persist
