Assessment On the Storage Condition of Medical Laboratory Commodities In Medical Stores and Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of The Store Managers on The Appropriate Storage of Medical Laboratory Commodities in Government Hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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2014-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: Medical laboratory commodity management system especially storage system oflaboratory supplies is a challenge for health professionals. Since absence of proper storagecondition for laboratory supplies is leading to damaging and out of stock for essential supplies,the need of proper store management have gained a great attention.
Methods: A Cross sectional study was conducted in eleven government hospitals’ medical storesin Addis Ababa from January, 1, 2014 -February, 1, 2014. Data was collected using structuredquestionnaires. Data was entered by EPI INFO version 3.1statistical software and analyzed withSPSS version 20 statistical analysis software. Frequencies were used to express theassessmenton the storage condition of medical laboratory commodities and Knowledge, Attitude andPractice (KAP) of store managers on the appropriate storage of medical laboratory commodities.
Results: Data was collected from eleven governmental hospitals found in Addis Ababa. Tenstorage. Lack of adequate space and infrastructures to store medical laboratory commodities were challenges in half of the facilities. Adequate and regular training should be given to the responsible personnelfor better storage of medical laboratory commodities(91%) hospitals’ medical stores didn’t have frozen storage of either -200C or -700C but all of themedical stores had cold storage of 2-80C. All hospital medical stores, except one, had guidelinesfor storing cold chain items. Only 4 (36.4%) of the hospitals were separate flammable chemicalswhereas 6(54.5%) of them did separate hazardous chemicals and majority 10 (91%) did separatedamaged and expired supplies from the non-expired and non-damaged commodities. All of thesore managers were responded that, they knew the appropriate storage of cold chain items while2(18.2%) of them did not know how to properly store cold items. Seven (63.6%) of the storemanagers thought that monitoring store temperature is necessary and 6(54.5%) them thought thatthe quality of their store was in compliance with the standard storage guideline.
Conclusion: The storage condition of majority of the facilities was in compliance with thestandard storage guideline. Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of majority of the store managerson the appropriate storage of medical laboratory commodities, were adequate on all laboratory
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Medical Laboratory Commodities