1 June 2015
Health-e News
Patients in rural KwaZulu-Natal are able to pick up their medicine from a wide range of local pick-up points, in a national experiment aimed at cutting the long queues at hospital pharmacies.
The system is for stable patients in the Umzinyathi district who have been on medication – including antiretroviral drugs – for at least six months.
Patients can chose to collect their medicine from various private pick-up points, including factories, shops, schools, creches and tribal court offices.
The medicine is dispatched to the local pick-up points by a private courier company, Medipost, which sends patients an SMS when their medicine has be
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