Since January last year, UTH has operated on a monthly budget but allocations are only made as and when the government has the revenue to spend. The result has been that the hospital has faced serious shortfalls. If you want quality you need to have the money to buy it. With erratic funding most of the important drugs were not being bought. The situation at UTH is symptomatic of a wider health crisis confronting Zambia.
Debt servicing absorbs more than health and education spending combined.