Sometime in 2017, National Medical Stores (NMS) announced it would need at least Shs 500 million to destroy expired drugs in health centres.
Around the same time, public health facilities had been hit by a massive stock-out of medicines and other supplies, especially those used to assist mothers deliver.
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