on 1st impression access to medicine doesn't seem to be an issue here in south ossetia pharmacies lined the streets the problem is none of them is licensed the individual prescribing medicine has not been trained as a pharmacist and the medicine itself legally speaking could not have been purchased legitimately through a regulated wholesaler so where's this medicine coming from. we met the owner of one of his illicit drug outlets who wanted to stay anonymous for fear of repercussions he admits to occasionally buying drugs from illegal briefcase sellers a major source of dangerous substandard medicines. they were selling it very close to. the. lower price the drugs they are selling are not but it is sort of that may be. from a certain sauce. yet the real difficulty isn't barry find the quantity of medicines sold in unregulated pharmacies like this one in kenya the issue is widespread out of 20000 drug shops we have 5000 registered pharmacies so 15000 of them are outright quacks but are putting the public at harm. once a government to step up their response. some of these are recent on th