Fake medicines pose big threat
Jacob Hassan was diagnosed with malaria. The medic prescribed three tablets of Metakelfin to be taken at once and three others after a week. Jacob lives at Mbagala Kibondemaji on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam City.
As the medical facility had ran out of the tablets then, the patient decided to purchase the dose from a pharmacy in the vicinity. Little did he know that the purported medicine he had bought was actually paracetamol.
By Peter Mwangu
4 November 2007