Ministry of Health has warned ambulance drivers in the country to desist from misusing traffic regulations guiding their operations during emergencies.

Government has started directly injecting 10 percent of total drug budgets for local councils to allow them to buy essential medicines in cash from pharmacies amid continued delayed deliveries of medical supplies by the Central Medical Stores Trust.

Ministry of Health has called for private sector support in ending the current power and water utility woes that have rocked almost all the country's public health facilities.

Ministry of health says it is engaging with the ministry of finance to release funds to buy drugs between now and the time parliament passes the 2021/2022 national budget amid drug shortage in some public health facilities.