Pharmaceutical Society of Zimbabwe (PSZ) has confirmed that the National Pharmaceutical Company (NatPharm) has of late been supplying short-dated medicines to the retail sector.

This follows alarm raised by a section of local pharmacies alleging that the national supplier was supplying medicines with a short shelf-life.One of the retailers who requested anonymity claimed that NatPharm has only become a
dumping site for international donors who have brought products that are about to expire.

“Some of the products are expiring in February 2019. At the end of the day you get a lot of stock that is expired. Zimbabwe has just been reduced
to a dumping site by the donor community whose products have a short life,” he said. Portifa Mwendera, the PSZ’s president, however, told the Daily News this should not be a cause for concern since most of the medicines that NatPharm supplies are on high demand and are usually consumed in the short term.Daily News