Chikankata hospital in Mazabuka has been hit by a shortage of medical drugs.
Area Member of Parliament, Munji Habeenzu disclosed this to ZANIS in Mazabuka today.
Mr Habeenzu said the shortage of drugs has forced the hospital administration to issue prescriptions to patients.
But Mr Habeenzu questioned why the hospital administration was issuing prescriptions
to patients when they are aware that the area has no private drug stores.
He has since asked the Ministry of Health to quickly address the drug shortage before people could resort to traditional medicine.
Last Thursday, Chief Naluama also complained to Southern Province Minister that all
health centres in his chiefdom had been hit by the shortage of drugs.
And District Commissioner, Misheck Chiinda in a statement to ZANIS in Mazabuka, called for the arrest of health personel creating an artificial shortage of drugs in all health institutions.
This was after a team of inspectors from the Pharmaceutical Regulatory Authority,
seized huge quantities of drugs suspected to have been pilfered from government health institutionhs.
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