Tanzania faces shortage of pain-relieving morphine
Morphine tablets. Possession, use, trade, distribution, import, export, manufacture and production of morphine is tightly controlled globally to avert abuse and trafficking. FOTOSEARCH
Tanzania is running out of morphine — a key reliever of severe pain for patients with terminal illnesses.
The Ocean Road Cancer Institute, which procures and supplies the drug to compounding units, has raised the alarm over the shortage, which has persisted since last year.
