The Laclubar Health Centre Chief Armelinda da C. Pereira said the Medicine and Health Equipment Authority (SAMES) sent medicine to the health centre that had already expired and did not follow their order.

The Health Centre Chief said until now, when they give their recommendations for medicine to SAMES they are always given expired medicine. "Sometimes they've already expired or have one month left until they expire when they're sent here," she said.

Manuel Soares Quintao, who works in logistics at the health centre, said SAMES did not send medicine based on the needs and the requests of the health centre. "They did not give us medicines based on our order, but gave us other medicines which were about to expire in one month," he said.

That's why he called on SAMES to resend medicines based on their request, so they can treat their patients. "As for the budget for buying medicine, we're from Manatuto district," he said.

At same place, pharmacist Engracia Carceres Carvalho said some of the medicines needed at the health centre included analgesic, antibiotic, vitamin, amoxilin, paracetamol and promitazin.

"Now SAMES sent cablar, asiclobin, metrodezol, and infuse and others, that's why we sent the medicine to the district capital and then they sent it back to SAMES."

"As we don't need these medicines, we asked for medicines in March and April but the medicines that came in May were not based on those needs," said the pharmacist.

According to her the medicine should have come within three weeks but they called and were told the medicines had already arrived but they didn't have a car to transport them.