South Africa’s teenagers are enchanted by ‘lean’, an intoxicating drink made by mixing easily accessible and cheap codeine-containing medicine with soft drinks.
Refilwe Moloto is joined by the South African Pharmacy Council's Vincent Tlala and Health Department spokesperson, Foster Mohale, to discuss some of the concerns over the Post Office acting as a third-party distributor of chronic medication.
Patients can now collect chronic medication from the South African Post Office, but pharmacists worry about branches' ability to keep these medicines safe and secure.