ECONOMIST Noah Kabwita says ZAMMSA’s disposal of expired medicines and supplies worth K129 million is likely to affect donor funding in the health sector. And Kabwita says government must consider engaging foreign investors for the construction of local medical manufacturing and processing industries to avoid wastage of medicines. Recently, ZAMMSA announced that it was in the process of disposing of medicines and medical supplies worth K129 million. Between 2021 to 2022 ZAMMSA disposed medical supplies amounting to K260 million. Commenting on this in an interview, Tuesday, Kabwita noted that Zambia’s health sector was heavily reliant on donor funding, stating that huge disposals painted a bad picture of Zambia being a wasteful country. “Money coming from donor funding to the health...
