HEALTH Minister Sylvia Masebo says government has started a process of installing a coding and tracing system which will help curb drug pilferage in health facilities. In an interview, Masebo said the system would make it easy to catch those that were good at stealing drugs from health facilities. “We are looking at ways of coming up with a coding and tracing system where drugs will be traced from the source which is production to the end user. It will be easy for us to be able to catch those that are good at stealing drugs from health facilities. We have our colleagues for example in Rwanda using that system. We have learnt that just when they introduced that system...

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