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Zambia has set up mini-laboratories at entry border points to ensure that the alcohol being imported into the country conformed to technical specifications, authorities have said.
Health Minister, Sylvia Masebo, made the remarks during the Framework for Implementing the Global Alcohol Action Plan, 2023-2030 at the 73rd Session of the World Health Organization Committee for Africa.
This was according to a statement issued by First Secretary for Press at the Zambian High Commission in Botswana, Julia Malunga on Thursday in Lusaka.
“Local authorities have renewed their efforts to ensure that laws that guide the sale of alcohol are properly enforced, including enforcing the ban of sale of alcohol in undesignated places,” Masebo said.
She said the country had made progress in curbing the scourge on the use of harmful alcohol.
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Masebo said the government was working with various Non-Governmental Agencies in creating awareness around the dangers of the harmful use of alcohol and providing detox services to those who have succumbed to the vice.
She, however, said there was inadequate government-run rehabilitation services and generally limited social support to those fighting alcohol as well as the inability to conduct regular random inspections and testing of alcohol outlets.
“Zambia remained committed to fighting the scourge of harmful use of alcohol and is ready to partner with the WHO Secretariat and other stakeholders, including the Industry which should be part of the solutions,” Masebo said.
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