{"id":6004,"date":"2017-06-10T08:01:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T08:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=6004"},"modified":"2017-06-10T08:01:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T08:01:32","slug":"expired-and-fake-drugs-seized-in-bujumbura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/expired-and-fake-drugs-seized-in-bujumbura\/","title":{"rendered":"Expired and fake drugs seized in Bujumbura"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6002\" style=\"width: 454px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6002\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-6002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0057.jpg\" alt=\"Expired and falsified drugs seized by the police\" width=\"444\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0057.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0057-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0057-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Expired and falsified drugs seized by the police<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The police discovered a large quantity of expired and fake drugs in the capital on 8 June. The police seized the drugs from a private house on 3rd Avenue in Muramvya, Kinama. The drugs included suppositories, quinine and paracetamol amongst other things.<\/p>\n<p>Two people, the spouse and the brother of the accused, were arrested during the investigation, police said. Jean Ndikumana, the accused, had already left his home when the police arrived on the ground. He is on the run<br \/>\nResidents of the area said they ignored that Ndikumana made fraudulent drugs. \u201cHis house is always closed. We don\u2019t care that he made fake drugs\u201d, says Nahimana, a resident of the area. Nahimana said that some medicines sold in the surrounding drugstores would be sourced in the area but was not worried about the threat from fake medicines. \u201cThe health officials should control all drugs sold to ensure that they are not falsified once they expired otherwise they will kill us\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Thad\u00e9e Ndikumana, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, says that the accused used a number of techniques to falsify expiration dates. \u201cHe clears the drug\u2019s packaging and updates the expiration dates using a stamp\u201d, says Ndikumana.<\/p>\n<p>Ndikumana also says the fraudster can change the packaging to contain the wrong drugs. \u201cIf there is paracetamol in the box, he would exchange the container and leave the label saying it is quinine\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Ministry\u2019s spokesman urges residents not to buy inappropriate drugs. \u201cThe health inspector will start an investigation to identify the suppliers and buyers of these drugs\u201d, says Ndikumana.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Bizimana, chairperson of the pharmacy Order, says that the government must be involved in combatting drugs fraud. He said the situation was worrying: large numbers of pharmacies have opened in recent years, and not all of them will abide by the strict ethical guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Freddy Mbonimpa, the Mayor of Bujumbura, says that the administration will also contribute to the fight against the scourge and gave a warning to local administrative officials. \u201cWe made a decision that each time we discover administrative officials are complicit, they will be dismissed\u201d, says Mbonimpa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police discovered a large quantity of expired and fake drugs in the capital on 8 June. The police seized the drugs from a private house on 3rd Avenue in Muramvya, Kinama. The drugs included suppositories, quinine and paracetamol amongst other things. Two people, the spouse and the brother of the accused, were arrested during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,670],"tags":[108,902],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6005,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions\/6005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}