IN THE past couple of weeks, Minister of Health Honourable Sylvia Masebo, has made two strong statements around the challenges facing the sector. Her first concern is that drugs are being stolen from government health facilities and taken to private pharmacies located near those facilities. The Minister also expressed concern that government health workers, among them doctors and pharmacists, are spending more time at private hospitals where they are engaged in private consultations. Sylvia MASEBO: “I know the whole story about pharmacists. The actual pharmacists are leaving the young volunteers to run pharmacies. People not employed by the government are the ones being left to administer drugs without a supervisor. I was at Levy (Mwanawasa Hospital) and just a young...