HEALTH Minister Sylvia Masebo has revealed that the reported theft of medical equipment at ZAMMSA was an inside job, saying the loss was only discovered during stock-taking. Last week, the Zambia Medicines and Medical Supplies Agency (ZAMMSA) clarified that the stolen medical equipment worth K1.6 million was not kept at its warehouse as earlier indicated but at an offsite warehouse. This was after ZAMMSA Board Chairperson Dr Anna Chifungula disclosed in a statement that medical equipment worth K1.6 million had been stolen from a ZAMMSA warehouse in Lusaka. And delivering a ministerial statement in the National Assembly, Thursday, Masebo said the keys for the warehouse are kept by a designated officer at ZAMMSA. “We did as a ministry, try to...

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