Delay in TB drug delivery irks patients

One of the affected patients, who could not reveal his names, called Mmegi complaining that since January he has been hitting the dead-end because there were no TB drugs at the clinic.

The caller said that for weeks he would go to the clinic where he would be told that there were no TB drugs or those available had long expired. Furthermore he said that nurses would often give them an ultimatum to either take the expired drugs so that they did not miss treatment or go to neighbouring clinics in Tonota, about 30km away. He lamented that when he took a taxi to Tonota Clinic he also hit a hard rock because they too did not have the TB drugs in stock.