Published by the government of Zimbabwe
14 November 2009
Harare — Two doctors and two pharmacists have been ordered to perform eight weeks of community service for selling and dispensing drugs without licences while three others escaped with fines after being convicted on the same charges.
Doctors Alexio Silver and Fungai Shanduki and pharmasists Ruvimbo Makoni and Lewis Kadzinga were convicted on their own pleas of guilty when they appeared before Harare magistrate, Mrs Gloria Takundwa, on Wednesday.
The quartet was initially sentenced to three months behind bars but the magistrate wholly suspended the prison terms on condition that they perform 105 hours of community service.
They were charged with contravening Section 50 of the Medicines and Allied Substances Control Act and practicing or carrying on business of a pharmaceutical chemist without a premise licence.
Two other doctors, Paul Chidemo and Herbert Chidongo were fined US$200 and US$100 respectively for the same offence. Ms Patience Chimusaru prosecuted.
The seven were among 51 people who were arrested in a blitz code named "Operation Zambezi" involving Interpol, Zimra, and the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe.
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