{"id":227265,"date":"2026-03-18T13:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-shortage-of-medicines-only-affects-chronic-illnesses-claims-minister\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:49:01","slug":"mozambique-shortage-of-medicines-only-affects-chronic-illnesses-claims-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-shortage-of-medicines-only-affects-chronic-illnesses-claims-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Shortage of Medicines Only Affects Chronic Illnesses, Claims Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Maputo \u2014 Maputo, March 11 (AIM) &#8211; Mozambican Health Minister Ussene Isse has claimed that the shortage of medicines in the National Health System only affects patients suffering from chronic diseases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">According to the minister, speaking to reporters, on Tuesday, after paying a surprise visit to the Bagamoio Health Centre, on the outskirts of Maputo, the shortage of medicines found in almost the entire country is related to specific medications, especially those intended for the treatment of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603120024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 Maputo, March 11 (AIM) &#8211; Mozambican Health Minister Ussene Isse has claimed that the shortage of medicines in the National Health System only affects patients suffering from chronic diseases. According to the minister, speaking to reporters, on Tuesday, after paying a surprise visit to the Bagamoio Health Centre, on the outskirts of Maputo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":227266,"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":[654],"tags":[12714,258,256,7222,8117,29977,6452,5941,4704,682,257,9467,254],"class_list":["post-227265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-affects","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chronic","tag-claims","tag-illnesses","tag-medicines","tag-minister","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-shortage","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/227265","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=227265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}