US is cut by the help of Zambia through “systematic” theft of the medicine star-news.press/wp

Now it announced that 50 million dollars ($ 37 million) in the Health Sector Zambia, due to the failure of the country in resolving “systematic stealing” donated drugs and medical furniture.

This “heavy” decision was taken after the repeated warning of the Zambian government for the protection of vital drugs intended for the most vulnerable patients in the country, said the American ambassador to Zambia Michael Gonzales.

“We are no longer willing to submit personal enrichment of the fraud or corrupt when patients cross or cannot buy life-saving medications that we have provided free”, added.

Zambian government has yet to comment.

The cuts are separated from the worry of the freezing of foreign aid, which announced President Donald Trump in January.

The Zambian health sector is strongly funded by foreign donors, but previously had widely embezzlement and corruption reports involving high health officers.

The US is about a third of public health in Zambia according to the statement from the US Embassy in the country.

But American officials said they were discovered by “theft” across the country “of medical products that were to be distributed free of charge in public, but now sold private pharmacies.

More than 2,000 pharmacies through Zambia were found by selling donated medications and medical supplies in the annual investigation conducted by the US Embassy.

“Shocking, through these visits, 95 percent of the pharmacy that sold the types of products that the United States provide and sell stolen goods,” statement said.

Almost half of the pharmacy was found to sell drugs and stock donated by the US government, said.

Other pharmacies were also found, which were sold stolen medical stocks bought by Zambian Government, the Global Fund and other Donor Partners Zambia, added.

The US Embassy said that she presented her findings and offered experts for action to stop further theft and led to justice guilty in April last year, but it was not undertaken.

“I regret to today, government actions have drastically failed to show the commitment to the protection of American aid and life we ​​have aim to save,” Embassy said.

Zambia’s law enforcement surgery focused on “low-level actors” and led to arrests “Only a few medium-level officials”, instead of explaining the sources of supply and leading masters behind the stealing of drugs, towards the US Embassy.

Gonzales said that the United States “can no longer justify the US taxpayer who continues to provide such mass levels of assistance.”

He said the cuts would affect the medications for the treatment of malaria, HIV and TB.

“This is not a decision we have gently taken,” Gonzales said, shedding tears as he explained how the measure would affect Zambian patients.

The help cuts will enter into force on January next year to give the time to the Zambian government to develop alternative arrangements, but said that “decision was made.”

Since Trump administration took office, she cut billions of dollars in global health programs, hitting African countries, including Zambia, where HIV remains a great threat to adolescents and young adults.

Trump announced the freezing of assistance on his first day in January in January in accordance with his external policy “America”.

The help cuts affected health programs across Africa, including shipments of critical medical supplies, including HIV drugs.

Most of the US Agency for International Development Programs (USAID), which ensured health care and humanitarian assistance to vulnerable nations, Since then they have been broken.

In March, Zambian President Hakaind Hichilem said that Trump “hit us on both cheeks,” saying that time for his land would strengthen his treasures to acquire his own medications.