Assessment of Challenges of Pharmaceutical Supply Chain in Public Hospital and Health Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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2017-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The challenges of pharmaceutical supply chain developing an objective of challenges leading
to stock out and what challenges are affecting the pharmaceutical supply chain activities for
minimize the interruption of supplies that was important for health facility. Tracking challenges
of the pharmaceutical supply chain is important. The aim of this study was to assess the
pharmaceutical supply chain system of health centers and hospitals in Addis Ababa. The
research conducted using both quantitative and qualitative approach of research methods and
descriptive types of research using structured questionnaire collected data from sampled Addis
Ababa health centers and hospitals. There are different challenges of pharmaceutical supply
chain that lead for the stock outs. Integration of pharmaceuticals were no full supply from
suppliers, forecasting disorganization for demand estimation, procurement poor coordination
and there was stock out at least 12 months were high. LMIS was uncoordinated, no enough
space of store capacity and problem of transportation those factors contribute for the stock out
of pharmaceuticals. In pharmaceutical supply chain activities have different challenges for
decreasing the interruption of pharmaceuticals. Challenges related to pharmaceutical supply
integration of the health facility and the suppliers and planning the goals with suppliers and
managing the supplier relation and develop capacity of supply planning from the production or
manufacturer to the end user to facility. Forecasting process and acquiring of the
pharmaceutical from the supplier in the requested quantity were challenging for the health
facility and some information of the supply pipe line was not monitored and does not known so
the probability of stock out were high. Decrease wastage of pharmaceuticals and prevent stock
out in health facility it was one area of challenging that stock outs are occurred and emergency
orders were placed decreasing those challenges increase the availability of pharmaceutical.
Minimizing challenges of pharmaceutical activities of the supply chain improves the consistence
of pharmaceutical supplies and decreases interruption of services in the health facility
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pharmaceutical stock out, pharmaceutical supply chain activities, challenges of pharmaceutical supply chain