By KETRA KALUNGACORRUPT companies implicated in the supply of substandard medicines should be blacklisted by the Zambia Medicines and Medical Suppliers Agency (ZAMMSA), the Pharmaceutical Society of Zambia (PSZ) has saidThe organisation believes that procurement of medicines under ZAMMSA was going to bring sanity in the supply chain.PSZ President, Kennedy Saini said the country has been subjected to poor procurement processes in the past because of corruption that allowed dubious companies to get the supply tenders.Mr. Saini said in an interview that the supply chain competence would be restored in the procurement of medicines and medical suppliers now that the process would be handled by a professional body.He said Zambians would soon notice a big difference in the medicines and medical supply chain unlike before when procurement of medicines and medical supplies was left in the hands of unprofessional people who lacked quality and technical evaluation of the medicines and medical suppliers.“ZAMMSA is doing the […]
Blacklist ‘corrupt’ suppliers of drugs – Pharmacists
