Zimbabwe: Condom Testing Machine Outdated

The equipment being used to test the quality of condoms has become obsolete and is reducing volumes being tested when demand is high, the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) said on Tuesday.

Addressing members of the Parliamentary Portfolio committee on Health and Child Welfare who had toured the MCAZ laboratories, director general Mrs Gugu Mahlangu, said the 15 year-old air inflation tester for male condoms being used was reducing the number of condoms being tested daily against surging demand.

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