Challenges of procurement and supply of antimalaria Drugs in public health facilities:the case of Ilala municipality
| dc.creator | Tefurukwa, Adonizedeck Mugisha | |
| dc.date | 2016-02-24T05:40:14Z | |
| dc.date | 2016-02-24T05:40:14Z | |
| dc.date | 2014 | |
| dc.description | A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for Award of the Degree of Master of Science in Procurement and Supply Chain Management (MSc PSCM) of Mzumbe University | |
| dc.description | The procurement and Supply of anti-malaria drugs in Public health facilities in Mainland Tanzania though steadily progressive in its achievements, but is also not without numerous challenges that could potentially undermine the hard earned achievements. This calls for an exploration of the systems and processes of Public Health facilities procurement in order to be able to ascertain some of these challenges and their probable causes using the Dar es Salaam Ilala Municipality as a case study in order to build a basis for any informed recommendations that would appropriately address the identified challenges. This particular study involves 250 sampled selected respondents from within procurement staff from Ilala Municipal council and MSD, doctors, pharmacists and nurses at health facilities (HF’s) in Ilala municipality, and some patients found at a particular HF at a particular date. This study involved the legal and institutional framework of public procurement of pharmaceuticals in Tanzania Mainland, the mechanisms used and their effectiveness in the procurement and supply of anti-malaria drugs, the challenges of procurement and supply of anti-malaria drugs in public health facilities and lastly to determine the adequacy of the inventory management of antimalaria drugs in health facilities. Established findings provided sufficient evidence suggests that a lack of sufficient fund, poor quantification, inadequate knowledge of inventory management amongst a majority of health personnel, poor ordering mechanism, and a lack of a legal and institutional framework to guide and regulate nationwide pharmaceuticals procurement have seriously undermined the procurement processes and its objectives. Some of the suggested recommendations, have ranged from the need for the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania to set budget for the procurement of anti-malaria drugs for the public health facilities rather than depending almost entirely on donors, the need to ensure that a legal framework for the procurement and supply of pharmaceuticals should be different from those used to procure non lifesaving products, regular on-job training and short courses to the workers should be provided so as to have health personnel who are capable in doing inventory management and quantification and ensure effective and reliable data for procurement planning. vi | |
| dc.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11192/694 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Mzumbe University | |
| dc.subject | antimalaria Drugs in public health | |
| dc.title | Challenges of procurement and supply of antimalaria Drugs in public health facilities:the case of Ilala municipality | |
| dc.type | Thesis |