Submitted on Monday 8th October 2018
Published on Monday 15th October 2018
Current status: Closed
Closed: Monday 15th April 2019
Signatures: 42
Stop medicine wastage Give our unused medicines to developing countries in need
Tons of unused medicines are returned to pharmacies every year. These medicines are incinerated rather than re-issued.
Meanwhile developing countries are rife with counterfeit medicines.
Giving our unused unopened medicines to developing countries would relieve sufferring and harm.
When a medicine is returned to a pharmacy in the UK for whatever reason, we assume that it can't be re-used. This is not so.
Medicine wastage in the UK costs the NHS around £300 million with £110 million of pharmaceuticals returned unopened & unused to pharmacies every year. Instead of re-issuing these medicines they are incinerated.
These drugs should be given to developing countries across the world in the fight against counterfeit medicines which are rife and are causing actual harm.
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