The Ministry of Health is hoping to stabilise the country’s drug and medical supplies by July after having to discard billions of dollars in expired stocks, Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony has said.
During a virtual press conference on Monday, Anthony stated that from 2015 to present, approximately $10 billion in drugs had to be thrown away as they were expired.
“We have been working very hard to procure things into the system and so last year we did emergency procurement and we have expended close to $12 billion to ensure that we get supplies into the system,” he said.
