On Tuesday, it emerged that the Ugandan Cancer Institute (UCI), is going through a drug stockout of crisis proportions. Apparently, a consignment of cancer drugs is being held at Entebbe International Airport pending clearance by the National Drug Authority (NDA).
Reports of drug stockouts at UCI are not new. Previously, they had been blamed on the National Medical Stores (NMS), which had been the supplier of drugs to the institute. The passing of the Cancer Institute Act in 2017, which gave UCI autonomy, had been expected to free it of some of the causes of the inefficiency that it had previously been accused of, but that has not happened.
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