Dar es Salaam — The supply of drugs to public hospitals is being hampered by serious shortage of funds after the government provided only 32 per cent of the money that the Medical Stores Department (MSD) needs for quarter ending September 30.
A drugs supply monitoring undertaken by the health NGO, Sikika, shows that the government has only released Sh20 billion to MSD for the purchase of essential medicine and medical supplies by September 16, out of the Sh62.5 billion that should have been released for the July-September quarter.
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