Uganda legalises morphine in Africa first
The painkiller, which is widely used in the West, remains a social stigma in African nations due to misinformation.
Published On 3 Apr 2014
Red tape and misinformation are to blame for the world’s unequal distribution of medical morphine and it is patients in the developing world who are losing out.
But Uganda has become the first country in Africa to allow nurses to prescribe morphine to patients. Whether you have access to it depends largely on where you live.
Al Jazeera’s Malcolm Webb reports from Luwero district in Uganda.
Source: Al Jazeera