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Reimagining healthcare in the Eastern Cape: Back to Basics is the right medicine to fix stockouts

Posted in: Access to Medicines, Eastern Cape, Latest

Medicine stockouts can have dire consequences. Tendai Mafuma and Ruth Dube look at lessons learnt over the years on how to help prevent medicine stockouts and argue that although the interventions are not new, if implemented it could help solve the vicious cycle of medicine stockouts in the Eastern Cape.

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Reimagining healthcare in the Eastern Cape: Back to Basics is the right medicine to fix stockouts

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