POLICE in Lusaka have arrested two individuals who have been falsely operating as doctors at UTH since 2017 and prescribing expensive drugs to patients. The National Health Insurance Management Authority (NHIMA) recently said it was investigating some doctors and nurses in government hospitals who were issuing prescriptions and directing patients to purchase drugs from private facilities at a hiked amount. Speaking when he featured on ZNBC’s Sunday Interview, NHIMA Director General Micheal Njapau lamented that some health care providers were engaging in fraudulent activities. In a statement, Thursday, Police Public Relations Officer Rae Hamoonga stated that Amon Muchosa, a Zimbabwean national claiming to be a sixth-year medical student at UNZA and Chibwe Kansumba, an Environmental Health Officer, had been prescribing...

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