PF DEPUTY secretary general Mumbi Phiri says some civil servants in the health sector are sabotaging government’s developmental agenda through the distribution of expired medicines to the public. And Phiri says COVID-19 has accelerated the high cost of living in Zambia, arguing that price hikes on essential commodities are equally occurring in other economies. Speaking on Radio Phoenix’s “Let the People Talk” programme in Lusaka, Friday, Phiri complained that civil servants who authorised the distribution of expired drugs at Medical Stores, which is now the Zambia Medicines and Medical Supply Agency (ZAMMSA), had an agenda to sabotage government. “It is just like ku Medical Stores, the medicine which the Auditor General cited in 2016, we have been saying, ‘we have...

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