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70 tonnes of expired medicine, food set alight in Jalalabad

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JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Seventy tonnes of expired medicine and food items were set alight in eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday, officials said.

Public Health.

He said a joint commission comprised of officials from different government departments were present on the occasion. “Twenty tonnes of spurious drugs and 50 tonnes of expired eatables were torched.”

Seventy percent of medicine supplies reach Nangarhar from Kabul, the director said. “We don’t check the drugs coming from Kabul. Police