By Bright Zhou
A 46-year-old Masvingo woman has appeared in Masvingo magistrate court facing charges of selling unregistered medical products.
Elizabeth Mukwe from Renco Mine compound was remanded out of custody waiting for continuation of trial.
Allegations against Mukwe are that on December 11, 2023, at around 1100 hours police officers who were on surveillance received a tipoff to the effect that Mukwe was selling unregistered medicines at Renco Mine business center in her shop.
Acting on the information, police officers proceeded to Mukwe’s shop, and upon arrival one of them posed as a customer and gave Mukwe’s employee Rejoice Pasipanodya one US$1 note to purchase ibuprofen tablets.
After being given the medicinal product, police officers introduced themselves to Pasipanodya before they asked her to produce a license or permit authorizing her to sell the complementary medicines.
Pasipanodya was informed of her arrest and a search was conducted into the shop leading to the recovery of 22 by 10 units of paracetamol tablets, 10 by 10 units of ibucap tablets, 22 by 10 units of ibuprofen tablets, and 3 by 10 units of magnesium trisilicate tablets.
Pasipanodya implicated Mukwe as the owner of the medicines leading to her subsequent arrest.
