HEALTH MINISTER ON MEDICINE PROCUREMENT
Health Minister Elias Kapavore has announced that the National Department of Health will continue to procure life-saving machines required by public health facilities to ensure these medicines are in stock at our 5 Area Medical Stores and 15 Provincial Transit Medical Stores throughout the country.
In a statement, Minister Kapavore says currently, across all 5 Area Medical Stores, there is 70% availability of the commonly used medicines.
This information, he says, is based on the recently established Supply Systems reports, which tracks all the stocks level and which medicines are on order at any one time.
He says this figure means that there are some gaps in the medicines, which orders have been placed and are yet to come into the country ADDING there are many reasons why medicines might not be available in health facilities.
He is encouraging all Health facilities is to manage their stock level efficiently and to place medicines orders on time to respective Area Medical Store to access these medicines.
Meanwhile he says placing orders on time is important because there are times when the Area Medical Stores do not have some medicines due to procurement delays; and it also takes time for the medicines to be imported into the country.
No comments