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Protests in Macedonia over claims hospital staff stole cancer drugs
Updated On: 06 September, 2023 08:48 AM IST | Skopje | Agencies
Chanting “Murderers”, demonstrators demanded the resignation of the country’s health minister and the hospital management
Protesters demand the resignation of government officials. Pic/AP
Thousands protested on Monday outside the government headquarters in North Macedonia‘s capital, Skopje, over allegations that patients at a state cancer hospital missed life-saving treatment because staff were stealing the expensive drugs to sell on the black market.
Chanting “Murderers”, demonstrators demanded the resignation of the country’s health minister and the hospital management. Among the protesters were several people who said their relatives had died after being given placebos instead of proper chemotherapy because the drugs had been stolen.
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