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'Unregistered pharmacies serious health threat'
A growing number of pharmacies in Bulawayo and the Matabeleland North and South provinces are reportedly operating without licenses from the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ), raising ala...Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 09:21hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
Drug prices skyrocket
ZIMBABWEAN drug retailers are selling medicine using exchange rates of between US$1:$220 and US$1:$230, sparking fears that the sector could become one of the driving forces behind an extensive deprec...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Pharmacies warned over escalating drug prices
Government has warned that pharmacies overcharging clients or selling medicines in United States dollars risk losing their operating licences. Unscrupulous pharmacies are overcharging customer...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 18:33hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Govt warns overcharging pharmacies
Government has warned pharmacies that are overcharging clients or selling medicines in United States dollars that they risk losing their operating licences. Unscrupulous pharmacies are overcha...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 08:37hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Drug supplies improve significantly
The availability of essential medicines in public health institutions has significantly increased from 52 percent to 65 percent in the last two months after Government availed funds for the life-savin...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe frets over looted drugs
THE Government has warned people against buying and using prescribed drugs and other pharmaceutical items that were looted when pharmacies were broken into during the violent stay away recently, sayin...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Internet shutdown negatively impacts on Zimbabwe businesses
THE internet shutdown by government has had an adverse impact on business operations in various sectors of the economy, businessdigest has learnt.Government last week switched off internet con...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 14:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Foreign drug manufacturers cut off supplies to Zimbabwe
THE pharmaceutical sector in Zimbabwe owes foreign suppliers more than $39 million for imported raw materials as well as finished products, resulting in supplies to the southern African country being ...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government to solve shortage of medicine
President Emmerson Mnamngagwa has announced that his government has made plans to quell the shortage of medicine and the skyrocketing of prices where it is available.Addressing the ZANU PF Nat...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 16:20hrs | 12 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Pharmacists heed govt warning on US$ pricing
PHARMACEUTICAL companies yesterday said they had heeded government's directive to stop demanding hard currency for drugs, but pleaded with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to consistently allocate them ad...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government calls rogue pharmacies to order
GOVERNMENT has directed pharmacies to stop demanding foreign currency from patients for drugs which are now available locally through NatPharm. In an interview at the close of the 67th East, C...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Budget should address economic fundamentals, Mthuli Ncube urged
REPRESENTATIVES from various sectors of business have challenged Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to address critical issues such as the budget deficit and currency reforms when he presents the 2019 Nati...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pharmacies condemn the ill to death
THE country's sick have been condemned to death in the country by pharmacies that remain defiant and demand foreign currency payments for drugs. Just watching the events at pharmacies unfold as the da...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 10:39hrs | 1 | by Andile Tshuma
Prophet Magaya begs for chance
UNDER-FIRE PHD Ministries leader, Prophet Walter Magaya last night begged the government to give a herb, which he claimed on Sunday is a cure for AIDS and cancer, a chance by subjecting it to tests as...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 19:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Contraceptives prices shoot up
For the average Zimbabwean, birth control pills are lifestyle drugs while condoms are one of those accessories many would put into the shopping basket without considering the cost.Well, that w...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 12:31hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
Bond notes disaster: Zimbabweans count costs after a week of madness
Mary Muchenje bolted out of a pharmacy in Harare's Avenues area, only to stop a few metres away scratching her head.Muchenje's world had just crumbled after the pharmacists informed her she ne...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 09:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government avails US$7 million for drugs
GOVERNMENT has availed nearly US$7 million for the purchase of medicines, a development set to ease drug shortages and price distortions. Pharmacies started closing their doors from last week ...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gounds to a halt as shops, pharmacies close doors
THE price hike madness prevailing in the country has seen some shops and pharmacies closing doors to customers. A snap survey across Bulawayo showed that a number of shops are reluctant to sel...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Pharmacists urged to sell EC to adolescent girls
THE Health ministry has come hard on pharmacists that deny adolescent girls access to Emergency Contraception (EC), known as the morning-after pill, as teenage pregnancies were on the rise.Pha...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Forex shortage hits essential drugs supply
The Pharmaceutical Society of Zimbabwe (PSZ) has raised a red flag over the worsening shortage of essential drugs, warning there is only a few weeks supply in their reserves.PSZ president Port...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Massive drug shortage hits Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE'S pharmaceutical sector, which relies largely on imports to meet local demand for medicine, has resorted to drug rationing as stocks have fallen to unsustainable levels due to protracted dela...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 09:24hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
RBZ told to 'delegate forex allocation to banks'
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe should abandon its foreign currency allocation framework and delegate the role to individual banks as this gives the impression of a distorted economy, the Zimbabwe Nation...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
RBZ moves to prevent shortages: allocates forex for fuel, electricity, medicine
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is making supplementary allocations amounting to $30 million on a weekly basis to cater for critical sectors of the economy.The move comes as speculation has once ...Published: 24 Sep 2017 at 08:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zim hit by mega pharmacists shortages
THE Pharmaceutical Society of Zimbabwe (PSZ) says the country has about 600 registered pharmacists, far below World Health Organisation (WHO) requirements for a healthy nation.This revelat...Published: 07 Oct 2014 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Counterfeit drugs put Bulawayo residents' lives at risk
HUNDREDS of Bulawayo residents risk suffering from health complications and adverse reactions due to the proliferation of counterfeit drugs on the streets and unregistered outlets, health experts hav...Published: 04 Jan 2013 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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