Terrence Mawawa Emmerson Mnangagwa has claimed his administration is working on fixing the shortage of essential drugs and medicines.

Writing in his weekly column in the Sunday Mail, Mnangagwa claimed:
This week we will host the Vice-
President of India. India is a key drug
supplier to us. Government hopes to
take full advantage of this fraternal
visit to explore possibilities on
pharmaceutical supplies on the back of government-to-government
arrangements.

Likewise, we will engage other governments with supply capacity at good value for money. Our scope of engagement with friendly
governments will go beyond drug
imports…We will explore ways to
reboot our capacity for the local
production of essential drugs as
before.

In the immediate and interim, we must use our national drug store facility, NatPharm, which is the least
encumbered, as our vehicle for placing fresh orders for medicines, while we tackle the legacy debt.

Where foreign drug suppliers have local agents who may be incapacitated to import for
reasons already cited, some
arrangements may have to be reached with NatPharm so we move speedily to

plug the import gap.