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What do I do with expired medicine? Don’t use it, for a start…

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Renier Coetzee is the vice-president of the Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa .

He says using expired medication and disposing of it unsafely comes with significant health, economic and environmental risks.

Some expired medications can break down into harmful compounds, such as ciprofloxacin.

Renier Coetzee: Only 23.5% of healthcare professionals in South Africa participated in proper medicine destruction.

In other African countries, formalised medication take-back programmes are less common.

Safe disposal methods must be established and promoted across the continent, he says.

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