{"id":199274,"date":"2025-06-01T13:29:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T11:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-chal-staffers-accused-of-stealing-drugs\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T13:29:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T11:29:53","slug":"lesotho-chal-staffers-accused-of-stealing-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-chal-staffers-accused-of-stealing-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Chal Staffers Accused of Stealing Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\"><em>&#8230;and selling them privately<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>&#8211;as govt takes over procurement of drugs from CHAL<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>Leemisa Thuseho<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">THE Ministry of Health has accused the Christian Health Association of Lesotho (CHAL) of mismanaging funds and prioritising staff salaries over the procurement of life-saving medicines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">This issue has reportedly led to widespread drug shortages at CHAL-run facilities across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Even more alarming, CHAL staffers are alleged to be stealing drugs from these public health centres and selling them&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505300459.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and selling them privately &#8211;as govt takes over procurement of drugs from CHAL Leemisa Thuseho THE Ministry of Health has accused the Christian Health Association of Lesotho (CHAL) of mismanaging funds and prioritising staff salaries over the procurement of life-saving medicines. This issue has reportedly led to widespread drug shortages at CHAL-run facilities across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[7083,258,256,51495,6614,4717,1407,257,254,16394,10184],"class_list":["post-199274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chal","tag-drugs","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-staffers","tag-stealing"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}