Malawi: Drug Theft Scandal? Parliament Launches Probe As Hospital Medicine Stocks Crash to Just 18 Percent
Health Committee chairperson Anthony Masamba says the investigation will dig into allegations that medicines are being siphoned out of public facilities and diverted elsewhere instead of reaching the patients they were bought to help.
Health rights campaigner Maziko Matemba welcomed the parliamentary investigation, saying it could finally expose the root causes of the chronic shortages plaguing public hospitals.
Parliament's Health Committee says it has uncovered evidence suggesting drugs meant for sick and vulnerable patients are disappearing from government hospitals, triggering a high-level investigation into who is behind the alleged theft and how the country's medicine supply chain is being breached.
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