The country has adequete drugs- Kamoto
Time Posted: June 5, 2011 1:41 pm
The Ministry of Health has assured citizens of adequate drugs in the country.
Health spokesperson Kamoto Mbewe says the ministry does not anticipate any drug stock out this year as the ministry is putting all measures in place to ensure there is enough drugs in the country.
Dr. Mbewe says currently, the country has sufficient drugs to last up to September this year and is working out measures to procure more.
He also disclosed that the ministry is procuring third line ARV drugs for patients in need of the third line treatment.
The health spokesperson says contracts have already been signed for the procurement of the drugs and are expected in the country soon.
[ QFM ]
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Go ahead and build your potempkin villages. The people of Zambia can now see through your fickleness and lies. Mwensoka Mwe!
Indeed – in fact whenever I hear a government official publicly saying positive things nowadays I know it is either not true, or it is a campaign ploy. Full of Potempkin indeed…
Pity even technocrats have been reduced to behaving like cadres, in fear of their jobs for not supporting the cause of a doomed govt!!!
Yes they have, but it is stored in South Africa at Morning Side Clinic.
Ya enough to last until elections and not after unless…