Audit registers regional imbalance in drug supply

A new audit has ranked Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital as the facility experiencing the least delays in receiving government drugs while the Kampala-based Naguru Regional Referral Hospital, experienced the highest delays. 

This information is contained in a new value for money audit report by the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) on the measures put in place by the Department of Pharmacy and Natural Medicines under the Ministry Of Health in the provision of pharmaceutical services in Uganda. 

The report captures three-year trends in the delivery of Essential Medicines and…