E-DRUG: History of Central medical stores (3)
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I would say that CMSs came to being (at least in Africa) from colonial rule - to serve poor Africans with medicines supply to colonial government health facilities.
See for example the history of Kemsa in Kenya at:
http://www.kemsa.co.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71&Itemid=151
'In 1915, Headquarter Medical Stores was established during the British colonial rule known as Kenya Colony ............
William Mfuko
Pharmaceutical Systems Specialist
Tanzania
William Mfuko <wcmfuko@gmail.com>