Op-ED: The Role of RDCs, MPs in Countering Theft of Gov’t Medicines in Public Health facilities

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While President Museveni was launching the NMS pharmaceutical warehouse in Kajjansi, off Entebbe road, in November 2022, he made a statement on drug theft which should have woken us up and worked towards zero theft of government medicines. The President said drugs bought by Ugandan taxpayers were on sale in the DRC and South Sudan open markets. These drugs are stolen by people known to many of