Companies / Uganda
NMS Criticised Over Expired Medicines
July 2007 | Industry NewsCritics have claimed that global health programmes are using Uganda as a dumping ground for short-lived drugsand Members of Parliament have called for the NMS to reject drugs if their stores already have them, rather than take the financial lost involved in attempting to store them. Yet, when the NMS informs aid programmes of such decisions they do not react and pick up the drugs. This results in valuable containers of medicines being left to expire, a public relations disaster in a country where thousands are dying each week of HIV/AIDS and other infectious
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