The SA Health Products Regulatory Authority is 'engaging' with tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu's office on her comment that she secured cancer medicine for the late ANC stalwart Jessie Duarte from Russia.
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“The SA Health Products Regulatory Authority has noted the numerous media articles on the statement made by minister Sisulu, having secured medicine for the late Jessie Duarte. To this effect, Sahpra is looking into the reports in the media and is engaging with the minister’s office,” the authority said in a statement.
While there are numerous oncology medicines that are registered by the authority and are available in SA for a range of cancers, Sahpra said it does have a mechanism to enable authorised access to specific quantities of the product for a specific patient if a treating oncologist needs to secure an unregistered medicine for a patient.
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