Vaccine Logistics System Practices in Public Health Facilities of Arsi Zone, South East Ethiopia
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2023
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
This study examines the Vaccine logistics system practices in public health facilities of the
Arsi zone.
Vaccines are very sensitive biological products; they lose their potency if they are exposed to
a temperature beyond the recommended ranges. Supply chains play a significant role in
improving health, saving lives, and reducing child mortality. A well-functioning supply chains
need the network of staff, equipment, vehicles, and data to get vaccines safely from
manufacturer to end user. The main objective of the study was to examine current vaccine
logistics system practices at health facility. The study was conducted among 24 health
facilities of Arsi zone, focus on vaccine logistics handling and storage, inventory management
and logistics management information system. Descriptive statistics was used. The
quantitative data was collected by data abstraction formats and self-administered
questionnaires and analyzed using SPSS version 25.0. and the qualitative data was collected
through in-depth interview with the heads of the health facility and mother and child health
coordinators and analyzed using thematic analysis. Results of the study revealed that the
inventory control system used by all facilities in this study were pull system, though there are
conditional pushes from their suppliers, the supplier of the facilities were woredas health
office. Only (8.3%) facilities reported conditional push system, storage units and equipment
were available in all 24 health facilities and 100% stored vaccines. Half of health facilities 12
(50.0%) did not have access to a generator/solar out of this only 10(41.7%) had functional
back up and only 3(12.5%) had a voltage stabilizer connected to the refrigerator, 23(95.8%)
have thermometer out of 23 only 14(58.3%) thermometer was placed inside refrigerator, all
health facilities suppliers are Woreda health office out of this 17(70.8%) of the health
facilities used vaccine reporting and requesting form,5(20.8%) health facilities prepared
their own forms to order vaccines from suppliers and 2(8.3%) health facilities that used
government requesting voucher(model 20). and the study identified that the most challenges
affecting logistics system were lack of training in logistics system, lack of training in vaccines
logistics system, difficulty of obtaining continuous supplies, The shortage of human resources
in the facility and power interruption. These findings indicate that appropriate actions are
needed to ensure vaccines logistics system in all public health facilities.
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Inventory, Logistics, Storage, thermometer, Vaccine.