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Low-income patients suffer as drug stockouts persist in govt units

Low-income patients suffer as drug stockouts persist in govt units

Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Uganda Monitor
Published on 2024-10-14 07:40:21

Stakeholders say the majority of such patients are low-income earners and that asking them to buy medicines from private facilities is like condemning them to death.

When Ismail Mutebi, who has a mental disorder, visited Masaka Regional Referral Hospital last week, he wasn’t attended to as expected.

Doctors cited a reported drug stockout at the public facility.

A resident of Kirimya Trading Centre in Kimaanya Kabonera Municipality, Masaka City, Mutebi says he has consistently missed ‘special medicine’ at Ward 14.

“This shortage has…

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