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Governments anti-malaria drugs ineffective: Minister

Agartala, July 31: Drugs and injections supplied by the central government to prevent malaria in the northeast are ineffective, Tripura Health and Family Welfare Minister Tapan Chakraborty said here on Thursday. "We are forced to procure anti-malarial drugs and injections from the market as stocks supplied by the central government have proved to be ineffective,' Chakraborty told IANS.