Dar es Salaam, July 8 -- PRIME Minister Kassim Majaliwa has reiterated the ban on medical practitioners to order patients to buy drugs from non-designated public health facilities.

The premier said the malpractice was unacceptable as the government spent billions of tax payers' money in supplying medicines to health facilities across the country.

He expressed the sentiments while addressing rallies in Kabwe Ward in Nkasi District and at Kasanga Ward in Kalambo, along the shoreline of Lake Tanganyika in Rukwa Region on Monday.

" The malpractice should stop forthwith" ordered the premier. The premier reacted that way while addressing public rally at Kabwe terminal after learning that patients at the precinct were ordered by medical pract...