SABRINA DEAN – As the Treatment Action Campaign embarks on nationwide protests over a dysfunctional public health system, the Free State Health Department is scrambling to provide answers for a stockpile of expired medicine found in the Mangaung City Hall. eNCA last night aired footage of boxes of medicine, including epilepsy medication, piled up in an unsecured environment at the City Hall. Free State health department spokesperson Mondli Mambi says the situation poses a danger to the public.
"The department is shocked. It is not aware of this matter. We are instituting a full investigation to see who the culprits may be, who the perpetrators of this unacceptable behaviour are," he says.
Mvambi has also cautioned the public against accepting medicine from unauthorised sources. "Do not accept any medication offered to you that is not being dispensed through the authorised medical facilities," he says.
The TAC will meanwhile picket at the Freedom Square and Chris Devet clinics in Bloemfontein, the Mafane and Thaba ‘Nchu Clinics and G and H Clinics in Botshabelo. The countrywide demonstrations come ahead of a joint march with the Eastern Cape Health Crisis Coalition tomorrow.
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