Herbert Ssempogo
5 November 2009
Kampala — A TOTAL of 650 dozes of government anti-malaria tablets were yesterday impounded at a city health centre.
The monitoring unit recently set up by State House was tipped off by a patient who bought the Lumartem tablets at the health unit. The tablets are supposed to be given free of charge.
The team, led by Dr. Daina Atwiine, yesterday raided the clinic, Musoke Domiciliar, in Ntinda, a Kampala suburb.
At the clinic, the team also discovered packages of Coartem tablets, another anti-malaria drug also supposed not to be for sale.
"Children are dying, while drugs are being sold here," Atwiine said.
The packets of the drugs were embossed with the words, "Government of Uganda. Not For Sale".
Ponsiano Jjumba, one of the team members, stressed that a health unit has to be accredited to supply government drugs.
The team also deplored the poor conditions in which the drugs were stored.
The proprietor of the clinic, Imelda Musoke, said she got the drugs from Kiswa Health Centre.
But Molly Businge, a nursing officer at Kiswa, said she last gave Musoke drugs on September 22.
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