Unnamed Pharmacist, Malawi
2025
A pharmacist working in cancer care in Malawi said chemotherapy drugs arriving to his clinic would look off – sometimes changing color. Patients desperately seeking chemotherapy medicines would be turned away.
“We had patients scheduled for clinic,” he said, “and then we had to break the news to them that we don’t have medicines.”
The pharmacist also reports his patients overdosed on drugs for leukemia and lymphoma, suffering severe adverse reactions such as vomiting and nausea. These drugs were found to have excess active ingredient in a study happening at the time.
Read more here: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-06-25/bad-cancer-drugs-shipped-to-more-than-100-countries-around-the-world
