Availability of essential medicines and inventory management practice in primary public health facilities of gondar town, north west ethiopia.
Journal Title: International Journal of Research in Pharmacology & Pharmacotherapeutics (IJRPP) - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Accessing affordable essential medicines is an important factor to address patients’ satisfaction and increase their health seeking behavior. The objective of the present study was to assess the essential medicines availability and inventory management practices in public primary health facilities of Gondar town, Ethiopia. Twenty six essential medicines were selected as tracer medicines based on the top ten diseases of the study area. Availability of the tracer essential medicines at the time of the survey was assessed. The six months essential medicines availability, stock out period and inventory management practice of the pharmacy units of the health facilities was also reviewed. The overall average availability of essential medicines was 91%. The mean duration of stock out of tracer medicines of the health facilities in the six months period was 30.5 days. The average frequency of stock out was 0.8 over the six months period. The discrepancy between physical count and stock record count of essential medicines among the surveyed health facilities ranged from 0% to about 60%. The total loss of money due to medicines expiry over six months period was 1337.6 USD from the six health facilities. Over all, availability of tracer essential medicines at data collection period was good. However, stock out of essential medicines in the six months period was high, and inventory management problems were observed in most of the health facilities surveyed.
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Mulugeta Fentie
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