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To the Editor: As a pediatrician who worked in Bosnia on four occasions from December 1993 to March 1997, I agree with the description and criticism of drug-donation practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina presented by Berckmans et al. (Dec. 18 issue).¹ I wasted many hours in my organization's freezing warehouse, sorting and discarding outdated and inappropriate medical supplies that somehow made their way through the 17 various checkpoints to us in central Bosnia. Although I occasionally discovered wonderful caches of cephalosporins, I usually cursed the idiots whose "altruism" confined me to our cold warehouse with no benefit to any of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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