E-DRUG: Wanted: Guidelines/practical tips for medicines storage in disaster situations
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[Moderator's note: PAHO has an enormous compendium of resources, eg Guidelines for the Storage of Essential Medicines and other Health Commodities (JSI, UNICEF, USAID, WHO; 2003; Humanitarian Supply Management and Logistics in the Health Sector (PAHO, WHO; 2001.
You can start here: http://helid.desastres.net/ BS]
Dear E-Druggers,
as a project within the course "Pharmacy in Development Cooperation and
Disaster Relief" at Tuebingen University, Germany, we try to collect
guidelines/practical tips for medicines storage in disaster situations,
which may be of help for medical relief personnel. If you have access
to such information, please kindly e-mail the information, the files or
the weblinks to [1]patricia.buchholz@web.de. We would be most grateful
for your help! If you wish, and we will be happy to mail our findings
to those who have helped us in gathering this information.
Best wishes
Patricia Buchholz Franziska Mecke
pharmacists
Tuebingen University
Germany
patricia.buchholz@web.de