Internal Ministry of Health documents have exposed what may be one of Botswana’s most serious public health failures in recent years as over a thousand tuberculosis (TB) patients were treated with drugs that contained none of the active ingredients needed to cure them.
The revelations, contained in internal correspondence, laboratory findings and response from the Ministry of health paint a picture of systemic weaknesses in the country’s pharmaceutical supply chain failures that experts warn could have long-term consequences for public health.
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