A DOUBLE dose of penicillin that a Cuban military doctor administered to a patient with an allergy for the antibiotic medication is set to cost the Namibian government N$1,7 million.
The hefty price of the wrongly administered penicillin is the result of a High Court case in which Acting Judge Kobus Miller has now ordered the minister of defence to pay N$1,73 million in compensation to a former employee of the Ministry of Defence.
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