HEALTH Minister Sylvia Masebo says it is not right to compare the Zambia Medicines and Medical Supplies Agency’s procurement of Missionpharma drugs to the Honeybee saga because the two are completely different. Masebo was responding to a question from Bwacha PF member of parliament Sydney Mushanga in the National Assembly, Friday, who wanted to find out at what point the minister was going to inform the nation that ZAMMSA procured defective drugs if the matter wasn’t tabled in the House. “This is not strange in the procedures of procurement of drugs. Read, check, you’ll find that this happens everyday. Even today, if ZAMRA has that good financial backing to check every drug, they’ll find that some drugs have expired. Even...

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