Ministry developing guidelines for medical missions, drug donations – Lawrence

The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) is working to structure the process guiding both medical missions and drug donations to ensure the needs of the country are adequately met, according to Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence.

Lawrence made this known following a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting on Monday, where Region Nine’s Regional Health Officer (RHO) Rolan Cho-Yee stated that drug donations by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) were mainly responsible for the quantity of expired drugs that were circulated at the Lethem Hospital in 2015.

“There is no prescribed standard in this particular area and I can