“Studies by Malawi Health Equity Network (MHEN), a group of civil society organisations in the health sector, show that while the Central Medical Stores, [the] government’s drug procurement agency, may stock up to 85 percent of the essential drugs, district hospitals do not have most medicines because of [a] shortage of staff to process the ordering. This affects availability of the medicines in outlying posts,” IPS reports. The article also looks at the government’s efforts to expand access to medicine (Mapak, 5/25).
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