Dear e-druggers,
Recently I wrote a paper about the feasibility of privatizing public drug supply organizations. The central medical supplies of Sudan was taken as a case study.
Abstract
E-DRUG: Privatization of the Sudanese Central Medical Supplies Public: Why not?
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In Sudan, the constitutional guarantee to free medicines in the public health facilities was abolished in 1992 as a part of health sector reform, which was adopted as a component of economic liberalization policy. The Central Medical Stores (the government agency responsible for free distribution of medical supplies to public health facilities) was converted to an autonomous public organization and renamed Central Medical Supplies Public Corporation (CMS). Since that time, CMS started the distribution of medicines and medical devices to all public health facilities on a cash-and-carry basis. This paper provides information about CMS and medicine supply system in Sudan. It also highlights the reasons and potential advantages of the CMS privatization. The paper concluded that, the best way forward to reach all corners of the huge country, like Sudan, was to privatize the ownership of the CMS. This action will render the new company to provide the current services more efficiently and cost-effectively.
Keywords: CMS, privatization, medical supplies, state owned enterprises, efficiency
Those who are interested in such subject could access the whole article at the following link.
http://www.sjph.net.sd/files/vol3i2p61-76.pdf
Yours sincerely
Gamal Khalafalla Mohamed Ali PhD, MSc, PG Dip. (Health Econ.), B.Pharm (Hon)
Mobile +249123039450
Federal Pharmacy and Poisons Board
Secretary General
P.O. Box 11995
Khartoum
Sudan
Gamal Khalafalla Mohammed <gamalkh@hotmail.com>