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Bosnia

During the civil war in Bosnia so much unwanted drugs were dumped that the government were forced to pay $34 million to build an incinerator just to dispose of them. One charity we spoke to, Pharmaciens Sans Frontieres, said that they had to spend £100,000 in the town of Mostar alone disposing of these drugs in lime filled buckets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The situation prompted the World Health Organisation (WHO) to issue a set of guidelines on best practice for good donations which stated that drugs have a shelf life of at least one year, that they should be no returned samples and that they should be requested.

 

Albania - 1999

Since then, the situation has not improved. We spoke to a woman who was involved in sorting out drugs in Albania in 1999. She told us of a hospital in Tirana which had received tonnes of drugs, shown below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However in sorting them out she found some nitrous oxide canisters which had an expiry date of 1989 or 1990 – ten years before they reached Albania.

 

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