THE Zambia Medicines and Medical Supplies Agency (ZAMMSA) says medicine availability is now above the prescribed World Health Organisation (WHO) minimum levels of 80 percent. Meanwhile, Ministry of Health Assistant Director for Pharmaceutical Services Maxwell Kasonde says there are a lot of requests at his office from pharmacists seeking transfers from rural health centres to urban areas. Speaking when Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary Dr Kennedy Lishimpi toured the Livingstone University Teaching Hospital, Thursday, ZAMMSA Acting Director General Liyoka Liyoka said President Hakainde Hichilema has directed that all medicines must be traced until the patient receives the last pill. “Government has supported us to an extent of K6.4 billion to the medicine supply system. It translates into the pill on...

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