MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Officials of the Public Health Department of northern Balkh province said on Sunday they torched 35 tonnes of expired medicine and two tonnes of food items.
Najibullah Tawana, director of public health, told Pajhwok Afghan News that nearly four million afghanis worth of expired medicines and food items were collected and burnt.
The expired items had been collected from a number of pharmacies and food shops in Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital.
Tawana said they would continue to prevent the sale of such substandard and outdated medicines and foodstuffs.
He also termed the expired drugs . . .
