Hospitals and clinics in the Eastern Cape are facing severe medicinal shortages as a result of delivery failures by a contracted company.
Despite supplies being available in a warehouse, the contractor has failed to transport the medicine to healthcare facilities, leaving many patients without essential care and causing the expiration of valuable medicinal stock.
Normally, medicines should be delivered within a day, but in the Eastern Cape, supplies often remain in the Mthatha warehouse for up to three months.
In some cases, expired medicines have been sent to hospitals and clinics, leading to the dangerous practice of giving patients outdated medication.
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Hospitals and clinics in the Eastern Cape are without medicinal supplies. The supplies are in a warehouse as the company contracted to deliver supplies is failing to do so, leading to patients being turned away in hospitals and clinics, and wasteful expenditure as some medicine… pic.twitter.com/FMghMGvPYN
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The situation has caused patients to be turned away, alongside significant waste due to expired medicine.
