Zimbabweans turn to medicinal herbs as the cost of drugs soars

PEOPLE are flooding traditional herbal markets, as prices of prescription drugs spike and the public health delivery system deteriorates at an alarming rate, under pressures from a relentless economic crisis, experts have said.

This comes as regulators, Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ), threw caution against unregistered medicine.

Many of the vital drugs that patients require are readily available in private hospitals and pharmacies, but are unaffordable to the majority of Zimbabweans.

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