HIV Drugs worth N3.2 million expired in storage
by Tosinalo
May 17, 2017
- The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has revealed that $3.2m (N1.08bn) worth of HIV drugs expired in storage. Adewole said this while delivering a speech at the Dissemination Meeting of 2016 National Health Facility Survey in Abuja on Tuesday.
- We are living witnesses to the challenges we face with the HIV programme where drugs worth about $3.2m expired. So, it is not a question of it (drugs) not being available. Sometimes the drugs are there but we don’t give it to them (patients) and then they expire.
- Speaking with our correspondent after the event, the minister said the incident would not repeat itself as mechanisms had been put in place to forestall such.
Adewole added, The issue is that the drugs expired because of some challenges in the system and we are trying to putting that behind us. We are now putting together a network of logistics supply system. We have two excellent facilities in Abuja and Lagos which we call ‘Warehouse in a Box’.
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