Inventory Management Performance of Key Essential Medicines in Health Facilities of East Shewa Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

2016-12-30T05-45-32Z
Source: Cukurova Medical Journal
Tadesse Gudeta Gurmu, Awol Jemal Ibrahim.
Abstract Background: Appropriate management of medicines at the different stages of supply chain is important. Failure to do so will result in stock-out, wastage of medicines and financial loss which in turn affects the health care services. Objective: To assess the inventory management performance of key essential medicines. Method: Health facility based descriptive cross- sectional study using both quantitative and qualitative method was employed on 20 public health facilities. Data was gathered using checklists, structured and sem-structured questionnaires from March 29 to April 29, 2016. Result: The inventory management performance of key essential medicines in-terms of measuring indicators revealed that out of 400 bin-cards selected 162(40.50%) of them were not updated. Only 28.50% of bin-cards were accurately filled. The mean stock out rate of key essential medicines was around 27.25% with average stock out duration of 35.31 days. On average around 10.43% of medicines were wasted resulting in loss of 174,366.98 Ethiopian birr (ETB) of which the value of medroxy progestrone accounted around 65.74% of the loss. Concerning storage condition only 5(25%) of the health facility have full filled good storage condition criteria. Budget constraints, human resource inadequacy, & over supply of near expiry date medicines were identified as major in inventory management challenges. Conclusion: The inventory management practice of the study facilities was found to be weak which was confirmed by poor bin-card updating practice, storage condition below the standard and poor stock record accuracy. There were also high stock out rates, and medicines wastage with loss of money.


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