Factors contributing to shortage of essential drugs in health centres of the southern region; Malawi; 1989

Results of the study have shown that there is actually an overconsumption of tablets of chloroquine; mebendazole; sulphadimidine and ferrous sulphate but under supply of penicillin to health centres which clearly reject assumptions and claims that essential drugs are supplied in small quantities to health centres. If there are shortages in health centres in the southern region; the shortages could be due to irrational use of drugs