LOOTED DRUGS ON BLACK MARKET

By NATION REPORTERESSENTIAL drugs looted from public hospitals are being sold on the black market at ridiculous prices.Patients have lamented that unless the rampant theft in health facilities is plugged, it may lead to more patients dying.Dialysis patients told the Daily Nation that most drugs missing in hospitals were available on the black market at ridiculous prices.But Ministry of Health spokesperson, Abel Kabalo said the country had run out of dialysis consumables because of the disturbance in the supply chain caused by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.The patients said hundreds of units of the dialysis consumables may have been stolen because they were the ones being sold on the black market.They said the reported shortage of dialysis consumables at major hospitals in the country including the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka may have been caused by sabotage and weakness in the distribution of materials to patients. The patients called on Government to institute investigations to […]