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HEALTH Minister Dr Lackram Bodoe lamented that some $80 million in pharmaceuticals and non-pharmaceutical supplies has expired at Nipdec, suppliers to the public health system, from 2020 to 2025, as he spoke on the mid-year review in the House of Representatives on June 23. He blamed this wastage on the lack of an integrated inventory management system, an ongoing problem for the last ten years. He assured that the government would fix the problem.

Bodoe revealed that to store both these expired items plus active pharmaceuticals was costing the state $123,000 per month. Saying taxpayers were not getting enough bang for the buck, he said, "That reform will come." He vowed to review the drug procurement process and supply-chain policies.

He listed the allocations over recent years from the consolidated fund to buy drugs and other related materials and supplies.