Beware of fake drugs
A LEADING surgeon yesterday warned that counterfeit medical drugs were being sold alongside medicines stolen from the public health system openly at markets throughout the country.
Dr Polapoi Chalou said health centres and aid posts were not supplied with medical drugs because the medicines were going into the wrong hands, often stolen and sold, causing serious shortage of drugs.
Dr Chalou, who is the acting chief executive officer of the Angau Memorial Hospital in Lae, said people who opt for the cheap medicines that were sold at the markets, should be aware of the risk they were taking.
By PETER KORUGL
24 September 2007