The following is an extract from a statement issued on 21 November 2011
by John Cupido (MPL), acting provincial spokesperson on health:
“In the last six months the Eastern Cape Department of Health has destroyed almost 50 tons of medication, most of which is expired goods.
Allowing vast amounts of medication to expire and go to ruin is the same as withholding treatment and is tantamount to a human rights violation.
The majority of the expired medicine that has been destroyed by the Department of Health comes from state hospitals within the province. If even the most simple of stock control measures were exercised then millions of Rand worth of medication could have been redistributed to clinics across the Eastern Cape
I will be submitting questions for oral reply by MEC for Health in the legislature scheduled for 7 December to ascertain exactly why this travesty was allowed to happen and will demand that the department makes the relevant changes to not allow this to happen again.”
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