By NATION REPORTERGOVERNMENT should treat the matter of procuring reagents used in conducting full blood counts with urgency because people’s lives were at risk, Residents Doctors Association of Zambia president Brian Sampa has said.Dr Sampa said government needed to quickly intervene because the situation was bad as the country’s biggest hospital UTH did not have the commodity and had suspended blood count testing. Hospitals and clinics have continued grappling with lack of sufficient medicines as the drugs shortage in the country continues to bite.Dr Sampa said the revelation that the UTH had suspended full blood count testing because it had run out of reagents was scary .To Page 3Last week UTH head of Haematology Laboratory David Mumena in a memo dated May 30 indicated that the country’s biggest referral had suspended full blood count testing due to the lack of reagents which are used in the process.And Sampa has urged n government to expedite the process […]
HOSPITAL DRUG SHORTAGES BITE
