THE Department of Health (DOH) is curing P17.5 million of expired and nearly expiring medicines due to lack of planning and monitoring.

In the latest report of the Commission on Audit, auditors discovered a total of P17.5 million of either expired or unused medicines because of “lack of proper planning, monitoring and control on utilization or distribution.”

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