PHARMACIST Jerome Kanyika has attributed the issue of drug shortages in health facilities to what he terms as an  “incompetent ZAMMSA Board”. In an interview, Kanyika said the country would still experience drug shortages for as long as the current Zambia Medicines and Medical Supplies Agency (ZAMMSA) Board remains in place. “So that is very true we have challenges of drugs and we need ZAMMSA to rise to the occasion because last year they were given 3.4 billion, how have they used that 3.4 billion? This year so far government has given them 1.8 billion. Long time the drug budgeting was just 900 million, 700 million but this time from January up to today we are talking of 1.8 billion,...

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