Into pharmacies

heat and may lead to adverse challenges,” Dr Magagula said.

He said the ministry was set to uproot these challenges in order to ensure that the public was not sold drugs that were set to cause them more harm than heal them.

In a previous interview, Dr Magagula informed this publication that chalk was being sold over the counter by certain pharmacies under the guise of medical drugs. He said this after the Ministry of Health partnered with the International Police (INTERPOL) and raided local pharmacies, where they confiscated fake drugs.

Meanwhile, the establishment and operations of pharmacies stands to be regulated after the passing of the proposed Pharmacy Bill No. 8 of 2021. The proposed Bill states that

SWALIMO President Mduduzi ‘Gawuzela’ Simelane with his father during the weekend. Simelane could neither confirm nor deny to have met his father in Eswatini. travening Regulation 4 of the Disaster Management (COVID -19) Regulations 2020 under the Disaster Management Act 2006. After fleeing the country, Simelane was subsequently regarded as a fugitive from the law. On July 30, 2021, this publication reported that Simelane said police would never find him despite being urged to surrender himself.

Chief Police Information and Communications Officer Superintendent Phindile Vilakati said thus far, police were still investigating and she could not discuss the investigation with the media. She said she would only confirm once Simelane had been apprehended. the sale of pharmaceutical products by individuals or companies that are unregistered could come with a fine of E50 000 or imprisonment not exceeding two years.

The object of the Bill is meant to regulate the pharmacy protection and to establish the Pharmacy Council. Section 55 of the Pharmacy Bill, No. 8 of 2021, proposes that offences under the anticipated Act are to the effect that a person who, not being registered, yet carries on a business as a pharmacist or allows to be described as a pharmacist, commits an offence and may face two years imprisonment.

Credentials of one of the pharmacists at Mbhuleni. (R) This pharmacy was found with no personnel on site despite that the door was open.

One of the one-room pharmacies found at Mbhuleni, Kwaluseni. (R) Another pharmacy where the pharmacist was not found but it was operating.