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Malawi: Malawi's Medicine Time Bomb - Hospitals Face Catastrophic Drug Shortage As Cmst Rack Up $18m Debt to Foreign Suppliers

[Nyasa Times] Malawi's public hospitals are teetering on the brink of a full-blown medicine crisis, campaigners have dramatically warned, after it emerged the country's Central Medical Stores Trust (CMST) is failing to pay foreign suppliers a jaw-dropping $18 million debt.

Malawi: Malawi's Medicine Time Bomb - Hospitals Face Catastrophic Drug Shortage As Cmst Rack Up $18m Debt to Foreign Suppliers

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[Nyasa Times] Malawi's public hospitals are teetering on the brink of a full-blown medicine crisis, campaigners have dramatically warned, after it emerged the country's Central Medical Stores Trust (CMST)...

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[Nyasa Times] Malawi's public hospitals are teetering on the brink of a full-blown medicine crisis, campaigners have dramatically warned, after it emerged the country's Central Medical Stores Trust (CMST) is failing to pay foreign suppliers a jaw-dropping $18 million debt.

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[Nyasa Times] Malawi's public hospitals are teetering on the brink of a full-blown medicine crisis, campaigners have dramatically warned, after it emerged the country's Central Medical Stores Trust (CMST) is failing to pay foreign suppliers a jaw-dropping $18 million debt.

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