THAT ZAMMSA announced it would be disposing of expired medicines and medical supplies worth a resounding K129 million was bound to spark outrage among members of the public, and rightly so. As we stated yesterday, our government cannot afford to waste resources in this manner, at least not at a time when citizens are struggling to make ends meet. In a country where the health budget is stretched to its limits, seeing that much value literally going to waste feels like watching millions of Kwacha being set on fire. The instinctive reaction is to point fingers and cry mismanagement. But that is one side of the coin which we addressed in the first opinion. Today it’s important that we look...
