Cart is empty Whether you have a sports injury, repetitive strain injury or pain in the knee, cortisone preparations are often used to treat acute inflammations. Chronic inflammatory diseases such as asthma, diabetes and chronic inflammatory bowel diseases are also treated with drugs containing cortisone or derived drugs. This is because these drugs usually have a rapid anti-inflammatory effect.
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Buy Zambia Campaign demands opening of Kalene Fruit Processing Plant
By MILLENNIUM REPORTER
THE Buy Zambia Campaign has demanded for the immediate and full operationalisation of the Kalene Fruit Processing Plant in Mwinilunga and the Chitambo Cassava processing facility as they have potential to reduce unemployment among young people.
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The organisation’s founder Mr Evans Kazonga Ngoma said the Katete Fruit processing plant also needs to be revived together with the other two facilities or government should give a report on what is delaying production.
Mr Kazonga says the three facilities which are being monitored by the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) are typical Zambians businesses that need liquidity to contribute to the economic welfare of the country.
Mr Ngoma says the current scenario where the three facilities are not operating do not sit well with enhancing local solutions to grow the economy.
Mr Ngoma has suggested that IDC uses other industries to feed into the three industries if running capital for the three facilities is the challenge stopping production.
He says the three industries can greatly contribute to the agriculture value chain and that the country needs them to be operational.
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