[e-drug] Percentage waste due to expiry or damage?

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E-DRUG Percentage waste due to expiry or damage?
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Hi,
I wanted to know which method is correct to measure the indicator, in
health commodity logistics performance measurement, "*Percentage of
stock wasted due to expiration or damage"*
*1. Total value of expired items in monetary terms / Total value of
opening stock plus value purchased in the reporting period
*2. Total Value of expired items / total value of items purchased items
in the reporting period

I am asking this because different documents has different approaches
and want to know which one is the more useful*

Regards,
Seyfu Abebe( BPHARM,MPH)*
Maseru, Lesotho
Seyfu Abebe <seyfuabebe@yahoo.com>

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E-DRUG: Percentage waste due to expiry or damage? (2)
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Dear Seyfu,
We calculate the percentage of expired medicines as follows:
1. Amount of expired medicines during the period
2. The amount (in 1) divided by annual average stock X 100%
3. Average stock during the period = [opening stock + stock end of the period] / 2
4. MSH reported

the range of acceptable value of annual expiry medicines is 3% to 5% of drug stocks
(MSH, 2012).

Yours sincerely
Gamal Khalafalla Mohamed Ali PhD, MSc, PG Dip. (Health Econ.), B.Pharm (Hon)

Mobile +249912318615
Central Medical Supplies Public Corporation (CMS)
Director General
P.O. Box 11995
Khartoum
Sudan
e-mail: gamalkh@cms.gov.sd