Private heath facilities like Comfort Community Hospital must be ready to accommodate more patients as drug shortage is expected to continue to bite Malawians.
According to The Nation of October 2 2013 the government of Malawi has only committed K6 billion (12.5 Million Euros) towards the national medical supplies and medicines demand pegged at K11 billion (22.9 million Euros).
Meanwhile the Malawi Health Equity Network (Mhen) executive director Martha Kwataine has described the K6 billion shortfall as not healthy for a country like Malawi with a booming population and diseases.
However, Kwataine says the government alone cannot fight the shortage and according to The Nation newspaper, there is need to enhance paying services in government hospitals.
Earlier this year the drug shortage hit the public hospitals forcing patients, majority of whom poor, to buy drugs from private health facilities.
By Our Reporter