Tanzania: Poor Healthcare Services Alarm Zanzibar Govt

Second Vice-President, Mr Hemed Suleiman Abdalla has raised concern over inefficiency of public facilities which is linked to bureaucracy in medical supplies, shortage of staff and prolonged delays in settling employees' entitlements.

He said there was no justification for the shortage of some essential medicines in hospitals because it is available in central medical stores, and that only the supply chain has been poor due to uncalled-for bureaucracy.

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