This follows reports that most health facilities in Harare and Chitungwiza had reported an acute shortage of the drugs used to treat the disease, causing disruption in the control of TB.
"So over the past few months Zimbabwe had been experiencing shortages of TB medicines. We are happy to announce that as the Ministry, we have received stocks for at least six months of TB medicines which should alleviate that challenge. At the moment, the facilities are receiving their TB medicines and the medicines should be available in all the health institutions, more so in the facilities that were worst affected in the city of Harare, Ruwa, Goromonzi and other areas," he said.
"The problem has been resolved, we have the drugs and we hope that this can go a long way in alleviating the challenges that we have faced before," added Dr Mugurungi.There was a problem processing your submission. Please try again later. "We experienced challenges of shortages of TB medicines in the past few months and this meant people who were diagnosed with TB had to travel around in search of both the initial phase medicines and the continuation phase drugs. We are thankful that this challenge has been resolved and clinics have begun to receive medicines. This is a good development and will go a long way towards ensuring that no one dies from TB which can be treated as long as there are medicines," he said.
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