HEALTH Minister Elijah Muchima has observed that prescriptions are still being issued, despite the fact that medicines are plenty in hospitals. And Muchima has described the exclusion of volunteers from employment as a countrywide disease. Speaking at the launch of the National Health Insurance Scheme Membership Registration under the National Health Insurance Management Authority (NHIMA) through funding from the Global Fund Project, at Dambwa Site and Service Market in Livingstone, Friday, Muchima accused some health workers of stealing medicines from hospitals and supplying them to private pharmacies. He wondered why patients continued to be issued prescriptions when 98 percent of essential drugs were available in hospitals and health centres. “President Hakainde Hichilema has gone out of his way to ensure...