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(ii) Routine surveillance has been undertaken by the Pharmacists and Poisons Board together with the Drugs Inspectorate Division of the Ministry.
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17 Feb 2011 in National Assembly:
(iii) Improved inventory management for drugs in hospitals presently has made it easier to conduct regular audits and thus identify leakages.
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(iv) Since public drugs can only find their way to private chemists through members of staff, the Ministry has ensured that any member of staff involved in theft of drugs is dismissed and prosecuted as necessary.
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(v) Distribution of drugs has been outsourced to avoid losses on transit as couriers take the responsibility in case of losses.
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Mr. Speaker, Sir, on a number of occasions whenever we visit these facilities, we normally come across patients who have been sent away by doctors using prescriptions to go and buy medicine in various chemists. Why does this happen if the hospitals are properly stocked with essential drugs?
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17 Feb 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to dispute one point here.
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17 Feb 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, what the Assistant Minister has stated - that they are engraving medicine - is not true. When you visit those facilities, you will see that---
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17 Feb 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am building my question.
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17 Feb 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, could the Assistant Minister confirm to this House that the tablet that is engraved with the word GK is only panadol? There is no other medicine which is engraved. That is why most of those medicine find their way to private chemists.
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17 Feb 2011 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is it in order for the Assistant Minister to continue complaining here that he does not have vehicles, while the Government has allocated Land Rovers to some civil servants and Ministers as trailing vehicles? Why does he not give those Land Rovers and give them to the new districts?
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