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Health Minister Dr Lackram Bodoe is assuring there are no shortages of cardiovascular, hypertension or cancer medications in the public health system.

This after the revelation on December 1, during a sitting of the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee, that about $80 million in unused drugs had expired while in storage over a ten-year period.

In a WhatsApp message, Newsday asked about the effects of the wastage on the Chronic Disease Assistance Programme (CDAP) which provides citizens with free prescription drugs and other pharmaceutical items in the treatment of diabetes, hypertension, cardiac and other diseases.