ZAMMSA Senior Manager for Corporate Communications Bradley Chingobe says the country sits on a constrained budget of K4.9 billion for medicine and medical supplies against an ideal sum of K16 billion. Chingobe says despite government’s efforts to steadily increase funding for medical supplies over the years, the funding still falls short of meeting the country’s needs. Speaking on the Insider podcast recently, Chingobe said although government had increased the budgetary allocation for medicines and medical supplies from K1.5 billion in 2021 to K4.9 billion in 2024, the amount remained inadequate. “Coming back to the forensic audit report, you remember that after that was commissioned, PwC had a meeting last year at State House, where they presented a pre-audit report to...